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If you want to get hold of some totally 
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with Code Masters right now. 

Why? Because Dizzy, the most 
popular game character and the 
Codies' flagship game star, is now 
featuring in a superb range of gifts, 
just for Dizzy fans. 

As part of this great merchandising 
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Rockwart the troll. 

With prices ranging from £3,99 for 
the cap, up to £13.99 for the clock 



SAY HELLO, 
WAVE GOODBYE 

Next month you won't see Amstrad 
Computer User on your newsagent 
shelves, but you will see CPC 
ATTACK. The Amstrad CPC scene is 
as big as ever and is becoming increas- 
ingly specialised, with very keen in- 
formed readers. CPC ATTACK will 
cater for these readers' requirements 
as well as supporting the huge games 
playing scene! 

CPC ATTACK will be a very differ- 
ent magazine than ACU For a start 
there will be a new clearer design with 
lots more pictures, and the editorial 
will be geared up to cater for all CPC 
enthusiasts. The popularity of the CPC 
has convinced us that Amstrad own- 
ers need a magazine that is as devoted 
to the CPC as they are! 

Watch out for CPC ATTACK front 
May 7th w 

NEW GUIDE 

Remember Chris Price? The man be- 
hind the foot pedal joysticks?We cer- 
tainly do, and the good news is that 
Chris's latest, updated product guide 
is now available on the market .The 
CpRs Design Technology Product 
Guide not only features the incredible 
Game Pro foot pedal joysticks, Marks 




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information. Remember, if you want 
to look good this summer, you know 
what to be wearing. That's right, get 



1 and 2, but also specialises in elec- 
tronics and radio communications 
software for CPC addicts. 

If you want more details about this 
rapidly growing CPC area, or if you 
missed out on the foot pedals the first 
time around, why not send a large 
SAE to C J.Price, CpRs Design Tech- 
nology, 70 Potton Road, Eynesbury- 
Hardwidce, St.Neots, Cambs.PE19 
2NN, and get hold of the latest cata- 
logue, 

For even more information try ring- 
ing on 0480 76038.You never know, it 
could be just the hobby you were 
looking for, 

PROMOTION 



TIME 



If you are still on the lookout for a new 
printer, why not run down to your 
nearest Fujitsu stockist and find out 
what's on offer during the new na- 
tionwide end user promotion. 

During the promotion, various open 
days will be held at local dealers' 
outlets, where Fujitsu specialists will 
be on hand to offer information ad- 
vice and, more importantly , special 
offers to purchasers of Fujitsu prod- 
ucts. 

A nationwide end user mail cam- 
paign is already underway; featuring 
the dot matrix range of printers, which 
offers respondents the chance to win 



an incredible trip to the Barcelona 
Olympics, with other prizes includ- 
ing computers, printers and games 
software. 

If you want to get in on the act, 
which also highlights the DL900 
printer, as seen in ACU, then get in 
touch with Fujitsu now on 081 573 
4444 and find out where your nearest 
stockist is.This is one promotion too 
good to be missed. 



PRINT RUNS 



Keep vour eves on the shelve a^ 
Seikosha announces its brand new 
entry level personal printer, theSP1900 
Plus As a nine pin, dot matrix printer, 
this new beast offers quality printing 
with versa tile functionality, at an out- 
standing price /performance ratio. 

What does that all mean?It means 
you're getting an awful lot for the 




incredible price of just £155,Capable 
of producing speeds of 192 cps in fast 
mode and 40 cps in NLQ, the 5P1900 
is no slouch, and it certainly won't 
deafen you either, 

Epson and IBM compatible, the 
machine offers two in-built fonts, Serif 
and Sans Serif and has a multitude of 
paper handling facilities. 

As General sales manager for 
Seikosha, Gareth Cornish, 
states;' Mine pin sales still represent a 
large- percentage of the dot matrix 
marketTheSPl 900 Plus is a key model 
in our entry le vel range and users will 
be attracted by its superb value. A 
high performance machine with an 
aggressive price tag, the S PI 900 Plus 
will have a substantial impact on the 
low end printer market * 

Can t say fairer than that but, if you 
want to see one for vour self first, wh v 
not call Seikosha on 0753 685873 and 
find out the name of your nearest 
stockist 



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Amstrad User May 1992 



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HIGH STAKES 

If you haven't taken advantage of 
Lancashire based Intranet's fantastic 
Multi-Scoop Football Pools syndicate 
yet, then now J s the time to get hold of 
some information, 

For just £1 per week, Multi-Scoop 
offers you the chance to be in on some 
big, big windfalls. And, what's more, 
if you can get some friends to join 
using your membership number, 
you'll get a commission which means 
you actually make a guaranteed profit 
without risk. 

How does* it work? Well, first of all, 
you pay an annual registration fee of 




FAIR NEWS 

All of you out there who frequent the 
excellent All Formats Computer Fairs 
are advised that a change of location 




just £10 Then for just £1 a week, 50% 
of your and everybody else's funds 
will be accurately placed on the foot- 
ball pools, using expert guidance and 
up to the minute computer technol- 
ogy. 

However, if you introduce new 

has been made to the show scheduled 
for May 16th. If you were all ready to 
get down to the Horticultural Halls 
for the London show, don't, as the 
new venue is at the Sandown Exhibi- 
tion Centre, 

Close to the M25, three minutes 
from Esher Railway Station, and with 
parking facilities for up to 6,000 cars, 
this new venue has been picked in an 
effort to control costs and improve 
public access. 

As the intention is to make this the 
regular London venue for future 
shows, why not pop down there and 
see what bargains you can pick up for 
yourself? 

For more inf orma tion a bout this and 
other venues, or if you want to book 
your place at the fair, get in touch with 
John Riding on 0225 868100 now. 



members, you'll get a 20% commis- 
sion, which means that after the fifth 
new T member you introduce, your 
weekly payments are already 
covered*! t couldn't be simpler! 

Get six people to join, and you'll 
also get a bonus of £1 0, which will take 
care of your registration fee. 

This is one set-up that has to be 
worth investigation and, even though 
the ranks are swelling all the time, 
there is always space for newcomers 
to join in the fun, receiving a quarterly 
newslet ter and constan t upd a tes about 
performances. 

If you want to know more, then try 
ringing Intraset now on 0257 276800. 



BOOK IT 



The good news from Wiley & Sons is 
that the latest Complete Computer 
Catalogue is now available, for all of 
you who fancy getting hold of n few 
books for reference. 

Publishing around 1,000 books a 
y ear, Sussex based Wiley has to be one 
of the most prolific publishers about, 
featuring just about every computer 
topic you care to name, 

The present catalogue is no less pro- 
lific, featuring 795 entries, which in- 
cludes 780 books and 15 journals, li 
you need something on your favour- 
ite topic, then you can be pretty sure it 
will be contained in the catalogue. 

To reserve your copy now, try ring- 
ing Wiley & Sons on 0243 779777, you 
won't be disappointed. 




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8 



Amstrad t/sw Mav 1992 



I LETTERS I 




NORWEGIAN 
BLUE 

I come from Norway and 1 live in a 
very little vMlagen I've been buying 
your mags for some time, but now 
they seem to be more and more diffi- 
cult to get hold of. 

My problem is that I want to buy 
some new games /programs. Since it 
is half the price in the UK, I have 
bought most of my software and 
hardware there, 

I am wondering if you could please 
send me an address for a company 
that sells both budget games /pro- 
grams and software at normal prices. 

I also have a problem with my 
printer, the Amstrad DMP 3160, 
which prints double line spaces, What 
shall I do to fix it? 

Thomas Nilsen, Kinstiruik, Nonvay. 

Ziggy:Well, my first, and most ob- 
vious, piece of advice, would be to 
take out an ACU subscription. That 
way you can be assured of getting 
hold of the mag on a monthly basis. 
On yaw second point my advice 
would be very similar, in that most 
companies selling budget and full 
priced CPC software are advertisers 
in ACU. So, seeing that all of the 
addresses are in the mag, a sub- 
scription should kill two birds with 
one stone, so to speak. 

As to your third problem, you 
might try consulting your printer 
manual and adjusting your dip 



switches to the correct settings to cut 
out your double print traumas. 

URGE-NT TIDINGS 

The 10-Liner Urge, in ACU Feb 92, 
would not run on my 6128 -h On check- 
ing the program, the Pound sign in line 
70 should be replaced with the # sign. 

Also, in Applications in the same 
issue, it stated that OCP's Advanced 
Art Stud io would not run on the 61 28+. 
I have recently purchased A, AStudio, 
along with the Genius Mouse from 
date! and I am very pleased to say that 
it works very well. 

On e iu rt her p o i rt t , pic a se d o no I s tart 
giving away a free cover tape coupled 
with a dramatic price increase, as the 
other Amstrad magazine that followed 
that note has lost my custom. 

Martin Mould, Mundesley, Norwich, 

Ziggy:Thanks for pointing out our 
errors Martin. Sometimes, depend- 
ing on which printer is used to pro- 
duce programs, the old Americanised 
dip-switch settings do cause this mis- 
take. Also, I'm glad to hear about 
your OCF set-up, As to the last point, 
you'd better turn to the Feedback 
Page to catch the latest on that front, 
especially concerning AA's progress. 

ALL PRAISE SD 
MICROS! 

I am writing to congratulate you on 
the marvellous article (ACU Feb 92) on 



the SD Microsystems 35" disk drive. 

In less than one week of ordering, 
my 3*5" drive arrived, priority post! I 
am very pleased w T ith it and with the 
excellent after-sales service I was given 
by Steve Denson of SD Micros .{I tel- 
ephoned Steve for advice on installa- 
tion and he could not have been more 
pleasant and helpful) 

Thank you for the great review. 

Richard Duggan, Hastings, East Sus- 
sex. 

AND AGAIN. 

To start with, keep up the terrific job 
being done by one and all on our 
behalf. ACU is the best magazine of 
it's type and let's hope it keeps that 
way, I don't mind a cassette on the 
cover now and again, but this is not 
the Amstrad Action, so don't lef s fall 
into the same mould. 

As for your article on SD 
Microsystems, for some time I was 
contemplating the purchase of a sec- 
ond drive for my 6128. In fact, I had 
rung a number of suppliers to get the 
lowdown on whether size 3.5" or 5. 25 11 
was best for my needs. Then came 
your article and I was sold, As this 
firm is just down the road from me I 
gave him a buzz and all my worries 
were over. 

I received a very pleasant and 
friendly service, not to mention fast: I 
ordered the drive on Thursday and 
was using it on the Saturday, not bad 
eh? The drive advertisement on Page 
65 of the December issue stated the 
si&e of the unit as 7 x 4 x 1 inches and, 
at first I thought there must have been 
a typing error, but no, it really is that 
smalL 

Now I am thinking of purchasing a 
Dart Scanner, how about an article or 
info on that? 

Harry Holmquest, Louth, Lincolnshire. 

Ziggy:I think Steve Denson of SD 
Micros ought to stand up and take a 
bow for the most professional and 
friendly sales service in town* Judg- 
ing from ihe pile of letters we re- 
ceived on the subject he has cer- 
tainly impressed a great many read- 
ers. The above are just a sample. If 
you want to get hold of all manner of 
serious CPC software and hardware, 
then why not look up the SD Micros 
ad later in this issue. Vou certainly 



Amstrad Vsbt May 1992 



Pag* 9 



I LETTER! 



won't be disappointed with the range 
currently an offer. Well done Steve, 
keep up the good work. 

MAIL TROUBLE. 

1 have recently bought an Amstrad. 
6128, it is second hand but in good 
condition. I live in Cyprus and am 
unable to obtain any software for the 
6128, so it was with some relief that 1 
stumbled across your magazine and 
the mail order software listings therein. 

1 sent off to Software City, cheque 
enclosed, for 4 discs, Pyraword, Tetris, 
Heroes of the Lance and World Class 
Leaderboard! Two weeks later, I re- 
ceive a letter telling me that for vari- 
ous reasons, "we cannot supply the 
following discs''. 

Now, I am a reasonable person, and 
can understand one or two of the 
discs being unavailable, but all four! 
Surely, if they do not have the soft- 
ware, they should not advertise it, If 
the software has been discontinued/ 
they should delete it from their list- 
ing! 

On the other hand I took advantage 
of your Money Manager offer which I 
received today, with many thanks 
and much relief. At least someone 
fulfils their promise. 

On a lighter note, I am now the 
proud owner of two ACU magazines* 
Whilst lam not yet qualified to make 
a comment on your magazine, I would 
like to say that I find it well balanced, 
interesting and informative. Is there 
any chance of a section for complete 
beginners ( I am one myself ), as a few 
features go right over my head? I 
would be grateful 

Davy Roland, BFPQ 58, Cyprus. 

ZiggyiMany people are extremely 
wary of mail order companies and 
although there are a minority of un- 
scrupulous people around/ in all 
markets, we do try and screen poten- 
tial advertisers carefully before tak- 
ing their products on board. 

Having said that, advertisers, tike 
our editorial coverage/ suffer from 
having to work two to three months 
ahead of the publication dates of 
each magazine. What this means is 
that, even though the games in ques- 
tion were in stock when the advertis- 
ing copy was written, there is a good 
chance of some changes to that stock 
taking place before the advert is 



p ublished . Yon can never guess what 
games you are going to have a rush 
on at any one time/ so Mat! Order 
companies should not be panned 
every time an order cannot be ful- 
filled. Anyway, sorry to hear of your 
problems/ but I'm glad you liked the 
Money Manager offer. As to your 
final point, we make it our policy to 
cover BASIC issues regularly as we 
are collecting new readers aH the 
time/ so keep your eyes peeled for 
the next series for beginners, and 
welcome aboard. 

PROGGY PROB- 
LEMS 

As a senior citizen and user of the 
Amstrad 464, and also a subscriber to 
your magazine, I must agree with the 
comments expressed by the Austral- 
ian 464 user in the February 1992 is- 
sue. 

1 ha ve had problems in running pro- 
grams copied from your 10-Liners 
and also, the longer programs in the 
Listing section. 

Up to now, I have always assumed 
that the fault was caused by my incor- 
rect typing of a program, but I now 
realise that it can depend on which 
model of computer is being used * 

Would it be possible to state at the 
start of each program, which model of 
computer will accept the program and 
thus save a considerable amount of 
wasted time? 

ZiggyiWhilst care is taken to en- 
sure that as many programs as possi- 
ble will work on all CPC models, 
there will obviously be times when 
some slip through that won't. Many 
of the commands that will not be 
accepted by the 464 should be recog- 
nisable by now after last month's 
article by Sean McManus. To help 
you out further/ we shall be looking 
closely at all programs in the future 
and try to point out which ones you 
464 tappers can get to grips with, Ok? 

MISSING LINK 

I am addressing this letter to the 
latest address available to me, taken 
from the first page of Amstrad Com- 
puter User Magazine, dated October 
1990. 

My problem is a simple one, I can no 
longer find the magazine on the shelf 



of any of my numerous local book 
shops. 

Being 63 years old I do not have 
much interest in computer games/ but 
have occasionally enjoyed reading 
articles about my CPC 6128 computer 
and the non-game software available 
for it, and 1 would like to continue 
doing so, 

I fear that in the absence from the 
shops, the magazine may have ceased 
publication, but the thought also oc- 
curs to me that, in these financially 
stringent times, it may well be that 
you have merged with one of the 
other numerous publications dealing 
with the many Amstrad Computers. 

If this is the case, perhaps you would 
advise me of the nature of such a 
merger, so that I might investigate 
further* 

Donald Henderson , Bury, Lines. 

ZiggyiBy the rime you read this, 
you should find that ACU / s distri- 
bution and circulation problems 
have been well and truly sorted. As 
far as I know, the situation has been 
tackled and you should find your 
fave CPC mag much more accessi- 
ble. Fair enough? 

PLUG PD 

I would be most grateful indeed if 
you would give my PD library a plug. 
The details are as follows :Ryles PD, 21 
Scarletts Close y Uckfield, East 
Sussex ,TN22 2BA 

One disc (both sides) or one tape 
(one side) = One Pound 

Two or more discs (both sides) or 
tapes (one side) = 75 pence each. 

James Ryhtt, Uckfield, East Sussex. 

Ziggy:There you go f short and 
sweet, although I can't help think- 
ing I should have passed this one on 
to Uncle Bob! 

NO CONSOLE- 
ATION 

Could you, or any of your good 
readers, please help me. I have an 
Amstrad GX4000 games console, but 
I'm having no luck in buying any 
cartridges for it in my area. 

All I am told is that it is obsolete, 
Could anyone give me the name of a 
shop or a supplier for these cartridges? 
I would be most grateful. 

J McBratney, Dal ton -in -fu mess # Cum- 
bria. 



Page 10 



Amstrad User May 1992 



Ziggy:WelI, much as we all de- 
plore the lack of support that the 
GX4000 has been given, despite the 
fact that it is potentially every bit as 
good as any Sega or Nintendo 8-bit 
offering, cartridges can be obtained 
from some of the mail order compa- 
nies which advertise in ACLL Have a 
glance through their lists to see what 
is available and Ftn afraid you'll 
have to make do with what you can 
get for the time being, 

DELUXE DES- 
PERATION 

I am writing to you in sheer des- 
peration. I have in my possession a 
very good program called Deluxe 
Paint II. Nothing strange in that, you 
may be thinking, but I have it cm 5.25 ,r 
disc and I want it on a 3" disc. Now 
you are saying, "So what's the prob- 
lem?" The problem is that I don't have 
any method of transferring the pro- 
gram onto my 3" disc. You see, I have 
my little CPC 6128 and the DPII was 
put on a 5.25" disc, so how do 1 get it 
transferred over as I don't have the 
appropriate equipment to do so, 

I also have a few other proggies on 
the larger disc that I would like to 
have transferred to the smaller one. 
Can you please help me with my prob- 
lem? 

Short of buying a disc drive to ac- 
commodate the larger disc, I am at a 
loose end as I don't know anybody 
close enough with the larger disc drive 

Amstrad User May 1992 



that can swap it over for me. If anyone 
can do this for me, then 1 don't mind 
if they take a back-up copy for them- 
selves. 

Harry Hall (address supplied), Not- 
tinghamshire, 

Ziggy:Forgive me my confusion, 
but this all sounds a little odd to me. 
Firstly; are you sure that the program 
in question is designed for use on 
the CPC? Secondly, if the DP II in 
question is the commercial product 
of the same name, then what oit earth 
is it doing on a 5,25 M disc* Has it been 
copied? Was the company's permis- 
sion asked before this was done? 
Strange, 

Having said all that, I could be 
barking up entirely the wrong tree 
here and apologies if I am. If so, then 
I have your address here and if any- 
one with a 5.25 M drive would be will- 
ing to transfer Harry's software for 
him, get in touch with me at the 
usual address and I will put you in 
touch, 

DABBLE TROUBLE 

I have two questions that you may 
be able to assist me with. Firstly, a 
relative had her Amstrad PCW stolen 
in a recent burglary they took most 
things but left some software on 3" 
discs which I have inherited, included 
are Stop Press and Locoscript, as well 
as discs containing clip art and more 
fonts, etc, Is there any way that I can 
get my 6128+ to run this stuff? If I can't 
use them I will erase the discs and uw. 



them for other purposes. I am able to 
CAT the discs but none of the files are 
either 31N or BAS, so the CPC is 
unable to make much sense of them, 
although they are CPM based. 

Secondly, apart from the obvious 
wiring of a jack socket what other 
internal changes are necessary to con- 
vert a 6128+ to be able to load cassette 
based software? I am reluctant to send 
my computer to WAVE, just to get 
this done, if the changes are minor. 
How about including this conversion 
as a possible project in the magazine 
for those of us who have dabbled with 
electronics and know how to use a 
soldering iron? 
Stephen feavons, Camberleif, Surrey, 
Ziggy:As for your first question, 
someCPMbased programs will work 
on th e C F C m achines . Have yo u tried 
running them under the CP/M + disc 
supplied with the CPC? If not, then 
the problem is that the PCW and the 
CPC operate under different versions 
of CPM, making them largely in- 
compatible. As to your second ques- 
tion, although such a project may be 
looked at in the near future, it is 
perhaps a little unwise to dabble for 
yourself while you still have a guar* 
aittee on your machine. Sending off 
to WAVE would guarantee a profes- 
sional level of workmanship and, 
most probably, a guarantee on that 
workmanship, whereas if anything 
goes wrong at home you have no-one 
to turn to, I would advise leaving it to 
the professionals for now until some 
work is done on the topic. 

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DIVIDER 




By C.Hine 



This little gem will certainly set your 
eyes reeling, as it creates some par- 
ticularly weird patterns on the 
screen.Using CTRL +X to create the 
funny X characters used in the listing, 
the final touch is achieved by pressing 
SPACE. Try it and se what you think. 



1 '464 SCREEN DIVIDER — "X" IS OBTAINED BY PRESSING CTRL+X- TYPE THE 
CALLS WITH CARE!!! 

10 ' FIRMWARE CALLS —HOLD DOWN SPACE FOR WEIRD BORDER 

' CHINE 1992 (C) HOLD DEL TO RETURN TO MAIN PROGRAM 
30 MODE l:POKE &B28F,252:? SPC(13)"ANY KEY":POKE &B1C8,1;CALL 
&BBl8:MODE0:speed ink255,255:ON BREAK GOSUB 100:CLS:FORN=1 TO255:CALL&BC62,7:LOCATE 
10,20:PEN 14:?"X SPACE X" : B=INT(RND*699) : A=I N T{ RN D*904) :U= INT(RN D* 1 5) : BOR DER U 
40 QW=INT(RND(l)*920)+(2*3/2)+84:IF INKEY(47)=0 THEN GOSUB 80 ELSE 50 
50 CALL &BC44,QW:CALL &BC62,2,121,13,1:CALL &BC62,A,B,U,N,S:CALL &BC4S:CALL 
&BC48,8,A,U:CALL &BC48,6,N:CALL &BC48,13,U:DRAW 800,12:DRAW 0,999:DRAW 999,0:CALL 
&BC42AB,U:CALL. &BC42,7,8 ( 1 2,B 

60 IF TEST(0,13)=0 OR TEST(0,3) THEN WINDOW#L15,32,8,10:CLS#1:WINDOW#2,32,32,15,4:CLS#2WIND 
OW#3,l5,lO,8,9rC LS#3 : WINDO W#4 , 5 , 1 7, 1 3,22 : C L5#4 : P A PE R#3 , 7 : PAP E R#l , 6 : P A PE R#4 , 4 : P A PE R#2 , 1 2 : C A J . I 
&BC62,N;CALL &BC42,N 
70 NEXTGOTO 30 

80 RESTORE:FOR I=&AF00 TO &AF0F:READ AS:POKE I,VAL("&"+A$):NEXT:MODE 0:CALL &AF00:DATA 
0L00 y C0,ED,5F,81,A7,02 / 03,78,FE,00,C8 / C3,03,AF:LOCATE U2:POKE &B28F,253:?"X HOLD DOWN D E L X" 
90 CALL &BD2LCALL &BD22;CALL &BD23:CALL &BD24,1:CALL &BD25:IF INKEY(79)=0 THEN RETURN ELSE 
CALL &BD21 :GOTO 90 

100 CALL &BBFF:CALL &BC02:PEN l:MODE LUST 



KNIGHTMOVES 



This clever little demo reveals the 64 
moves that the Knight pice on a chess- 
board; must take, to cover every single 
square on the board. It isn't the most 



By Ernest Thompson 

startling demo around, but it may 
come in handy for your own crea- 
tions. 




10 MODE 1 :DIM B ( 1 2 , ! 2 ) : T =0 : J = 2 : K= 2 : L = 3 ; GOSUB 1 GO : T = 3 : 3 = 5 ; K = 3 

:L=2:GOSUB 100: FOR A=1 TO 8: READ R , C : S { A ) = B : T ( A ) =C : NEXT : DATA 

1,2,2,1,2, 1,1,-2,-1,-2, 2,1, 2,1,1,2 
20 FOR A = 1 TO 1 2 : FOR R=] TO 1 2 ; B C B . A } = 1 : NEXT B , A : FOR A - 3 TO 
10: FOR. B=3 TO 1 O : R { B , A ) =0 : NEXT R , A : X = T NT f RND * 8 )i 3 : Y = I NT (R NO * 
8 ) + 3 : B ( X , Y > = 1 

3 0 \ I - I NT { X / 2 ) : Y 1 = I NT { Y / 2 1 : IF (Xl=X/2 AND Y 1 = Y/ 2 > OR ( X 1 < > X / 2 
AND YJOY/2) THEN Z = 2 ELSE Z = 3 

4 0 SOUND 1 ,400, 20 ; LOCATE X * 3 l 1 ; Y * 3 -7 : PAPER % PEN O : PR I NT" I M ■ 
FOR A - J TO 2000 ; NEXT ; FOR N = 2 TO G 4 : P = 9 : FOR 1 = 1 TO 8 * X ] = X + S U 
> ;-Y1 =Y i T< 1 1 ; I F R(X1 .YMftJ THEN RO 

5 0 1=0: FOR J - 1 TO 8 : X 2 = X 1 *■ S ( 3 ) : Y 2 = Y 1 H T ( J ) ; 1 F B < X 2 , Y 2 J = 1 T HEN 
70 

GO L=L+ J 

7 0 NEXT: IF L<P THEN P = I. :E=T 

8 0 NEXT: FOR A = 1 TO 500 : NKXT : IF Z-2 THEN Z = 3 ELS E Z = 2 

90 X=X+S< K ) : Y = Y iT( E > : R( X , Y 1 = 1 : SOUND I , 4 00 fi * N , 2 0 : LOCATE X*3 + 
l.Y*3 7 : PAPER 7. : PEN O: PRINT RIGHTS ( STIf$ ( N I : LFN( STR$ (N) M I ;N 
EXT: PAPER O : PEN 1 : FND 

100 FOR A= 1 TO 19 STEP 6 : FOR. B= T TO ,7 : FOR 0=9 TO 27 STEP 6:S 
OUND 1.20,5: FOR D = 0 TO 2 : LOCATE O fD . A + B : PEN K: PRINT CHR$ (I A3 
i : NEXT : FOR D=3 .TO 5 : LOCATE CtD,A + R:hKN L: PRINT CHRS ( J 4 3 ) : NEX 
T D , C , B . A ; RETURN 



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METEd 




On with the fun folks, with this smart 
meteor dodger for your 
perusal Basically, you are way from 
home, caught in a meteor shower, 
with damaged engines and low fuel 
levels to boot What do you do?Well / 
as your ship drifts in one direction 
only, you must use the SPACE bar to 




drag it back in the opposite direction, same time.This one's not easy, but it 
avoiding meteors and trying to make sure is f urL 
contact with the fuel dumps at the 



1 ' M e t p. n r S h o w n r J $% ] 

2 i [72] 

3 ' (C) Robin 'Pipeline Software 1 Gilbert , January 1992 [73] 

4 * [74] 

10 MODE 1 : INK 0,1: BORDER. J; INK 1,26: INK 2, 11: INK 3,0: PAPER 0 
;CLS:PEN 2: PRINT TAB(8)"M o t e o r S h o w e r " : PR T NT : PEN 

1 : PRINT TABU) "Score: ; TAB ( 2 1 ) "Fuel : " s LOCATE 4 , 25 : PR ] NT"His 
mm** ; TAB (21 ) "By : " : hi = 1 00 tnS^'ROB" : WINDOW*! , 4,36,5,23; PAPER 

1,3:CLS#1 [63] 

20 SYMBOL 255 /12,6,50,74,74,122,1 22, I 22 : f 1 $ = CHR$ ( 2 55 ) : SYMBOL 
254 ,85,127 l 99,54,52 1 28,a,8:SYMBOL 253,0,0,60, 126, 126,126,60 
, 0 : s$=0HR$ (254) :p$0 )=CHR$(231 ) : p$ ( 2 I =CHR$ ( 144 \ : p$ ( 3 ) =CHR$ ( 2 
53) [B2] 

3 0 tm=0:s = 0:f] = 10: LOCATE 12, 2 5: PRUT UTJ NO : hi : LOCATE 

24,25:PRINT nS:LOCATE#l , 6 , 2 : PEN#1 ,2: PRINT* 1 , "Press any key t 
o play.": WHILE INKEY$ = " " : WEND : CLS*1 : x = 1 6 : y =6 [75] 
40 bx=0:a=l+s/150:FOR f= ! TO a : i f ) =RND*31 + 1 ; NEXT : 1 F RND > 0 . 
9 THEN bx=RND*31 +1 [44 ] 

50 k=INKEY(47) : IF lt<>-1 AND x<33 THEN xx = J : s = r,i I : f 1 . = f 1 0.1:8 
OUND 1,40+f 1*4,2 ELSE IF m>% AND k = J THEN xx =-l [2B] 
60 LOCATE 1 ,.x + xx , y : 7$=00PY0HR$ (#1 ) : IF z$:fU THEN fl-flil:S0 
UNI) ] ,50, 10; SOUND 1 ,70,5: SOUND 1,60,5 ELSE IF z$-p$M) OR z$ fl4] 
= P$(2) OR z$=p$(3) THEN FOR f = l TO 1 0 + s/l 0 : MOVE ( x + 2 ) * 1 6 t RND [14] 
*16,248+RND*8:DRAW 72* RND*<1 96 , 364 RND* 29(5 ; NEXT: GOTO 90 [14] 
70 PEN#l,l:FOR f-1 TO a : LOCATE*! , ax { f ) , 1 9 : PRINT*! , p$ ( 1 +RND*3 |6Ej 
): NEXT: IF bxOO THEN LOCATK#I , bx , 1 9 : PRINT l t fl$ [6E] 
80 LOCATED! t x, y: PR I NT#1 , " " : LOCATE* 1 , 32 , 20 : PRINT#1 , CHR$ ( 13 > j 
x = x + xx :PEN#1 , 2 : CALL &BD19 : LOCATE* 1 , x , y : PR JNW1 t s $ : CALL &BD1 9 
:xx = 0:yy = 0: LOCATE 10, 3: PR I NT US T NG " ; f> : I F f 1 <0 THEN 90 

ELSE LOCATE 27,3:PRTNT STR INC$ ( fl , 14 3 ); STRINGS f 1 + < 1 0 - fl } 32) 
;GOTO 40 [86] 

90 SOUND 1,1000, 100, 10, 0,0,31: LOCATE 10,11 . ;PRINT" GAM E 
OVER " : CLEAR INPUT : WHILE 1 NKEYS- " " : WEND : CLS*J : IF s>hi THE 
N LOCATE 12,13: PR INT M Cong retain t i ohr M : in = ss : IXKijM 12,15: TNPtf 
r'Name" :n$:n$=LEFT$1n$ , 1 3} :GOTO 30 ELSE 30 [6E] 



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DESIGNER 



By Ernest Derry 



This excellent aid to character design- character, using the cursor and COPY exactly what you need to type into 
ing could not be more easy. All you keys, then press E to end your your program to access the character, 
need to do, is map out your desired routine.Now, the proggie will list out Simple and very, very handy. 



10 REM Choracter ftosi gnor By E.F.Dni-ry 

2 0 MODE 1 i INK 0,3 : 1 NK 1 : INK 2 , O : DIM num (8) : p = J : PEN J : FOR 
y = 1 TO 0 s Ton x = 1 TO ft : LOCATE x l Ifi.yl ft : PR. 1 NT CHR$ (2.13) j NEXT x. 
: NEXT y : LOCATE 3 . 2 2 : I'll I NT " L COPY J TO PLOT [ F j TO KND" : LOCAT 
F S t PR T NT ♦'CURSOR KEY 55 TO MOVE PO t NTER " 

3 O PEN 3 : ox=l :oy=l : x=1 :y=l : LOCATE x+16,y46: PR T NT" I ,h : p = 1 
40 IF I NTCEY ( B 1=0 THEN x = x-l ELSE I F TNKEYt 1 ) =0 TURN x = x^l 

S E IF I NK E Y ( O } = O THEN y - y - J ELS E IF I NKE Y ( 2 > = O THEN v = v U EI 
SE IF INKEY (9)=0 THEN k = J ELSE IF INK'KY<5fl|=0 THEN o = 1 
5 O I F x = 0 THEN * = 1 EL S I C I F x = 9 TIT EN x = ft ELS E I F v = O T]t F N v = J 
* ELSE IF y-9 THEN y-8 

f>0 IF - I THEN 7 = 0 : FDR n - 1 TO 200:NEXT 
P= I 

70 IF ox=* AND oy=v THEN ftO ELSE PEN p 

N T CHlUi < 2 3 ,1 ) :w=2f.-(yU. ) :vxr| x 4 1 G ) * 16 (5:vf=w*]fi ft : j> = TEST ( vs . v 
v ) : PEN p i LOCATE s H li , ,v \ ft : PEN 3 : PR T NT " 4 " : o n = k : . >; v ~y 
fiO I F i- ~0 THEN 4 0 ELSE PEN p i LOCATE x l I 6 , y t 5 : PR J NT CHR$ ( 2 33 ) 
f>0 FOR y = 7 TO I 4 :'o = 0 : FOR x = £M TO ] 7 STEP 1 ; a = a > 1 : v * = X * 1 ft ft:w 
= 2 ft y r vy = w * I ft • ft : I = TEST t v * , v y ) ; I F t = 1 THEN r 9 O : GOTO J 0 f> ELS E 
IF n _ 1 THEN j ■ = 1 FT ,S E r = 2*(a I ) 

1 0.0 num ( y- 6 ) srmni ( y 6 ) < r : NEXT x : NEXT y : OLS : PEN 1 : LOCATE I F. . J 0 
:PRINT"Th(> S Y M BO 1 . <•>.<-> mrm-ind i «? : LOCATE 2 . 1 3 : 1 1 ? I N T ' H : Y M BO 1 , 2 A G " : 
: CLEAR INPUT j FOR n = l TO ft : PR T NT " : " ; nnm( n } ; ; NEXT : PRINT :PH I NT 
: PRINT"Typ<» in (lie; r-il>nv** nnmmfind (inci theiii type in PRINT CHRS 
< 24 0 1 " : PR TNT 



IF p = ? THEN p=2 ELSE 
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By Neil Barratt 



It's been done before, but you can't have too 
much of a good thing I say. Anyway, this 
little proggie allows you to print out six disc 
inlays on a sheet of A4 paper, with 9 entries 
allowed per side Just follow the instructions 
and see how this can tidy up your lifestyle. 



1 J 3" Disc Inlav Printer 

2 ' By Neil Barratt 

3 ' Prints 6 labels on A4 Paper 

4 ' 9 Entries allowed per side 

5 ' Press ENTER 'RETURN for blank entry 

10 CLS:DIM discno(6):DIM sideaS(9,6):DlM sideb$(9,6):FOR disc=l TO 6:INFUT "Disc Number";discno(disc):FOR 
a=l TO 9 

20 PRINT "Program", a;" Title (27 characters max.) ";;1.\PU I sidea$(a.disc):length-LE\(sideaS(a,disc)):TFteni;th>27 

THEN GOTO 20 

30 NEXT a:FOR b=l TO 9 

40 PRINT "Program" ;b;"Tit!c (27 characters max.) ";:f N PUT sideb$(b,disc) :length=LEN(sideb$Cb,disc)):IF length>27 

THEN GOTO 40 

50 NEXT b:NEXT disc 

60 PRINT#8,STRINC$(65,CHR$(95)):FOR a = l TO 5 STEP 2:PRINT#8," I "/'Disc No";:PRINT#S, 
USING"### v ;discno(a);:PRINT#8,STRING$(21,CHR$(32));:PRINT#8,"l";"Disc 
No" ; : PRINT#B,USING " ###" ;discno(a+ 1) ;: PRINT#8,STRING $(21 ,CHR$ (32) );" I " 

70PRINT#8/' I ";"SideP l ;STRING$(8 / CHR$(32});"FreeSpace=";STRING$<6,CHR$(32));'' I "f Side 1 ;S TR1NG$(7,CHR$ 
(32)};"Free Space=";STRING$(7,CHR${32));" I *:FOR prog=l TO 9:length=LEN{sidea${prog,a)) 
:lengthl =LEN(sidea$(prog jr a+l ));space=27-length 

80 spacel=27-lengthLPRlNT#8," l";prog;".";sidea$(prog,a);space$(space);" I ";prog;".";sidea$ (prog,a+l); 
SPACE$(spacel);" P':NEXT prog 

90 PR[\T#8/' I "/'Side 2";STRING$(8,CHR$(32))/'Free Space=";STRING$(6,CHR$(32));" I "/'Side 
2";STRING$(7,CHR$(32));"Free Space=";STRING$(7,CHR$(32))/' I ":FOR prog=l TO 9:length=LEN 
(sideb$ ( pr og,a) ) :leng th 1 =LEN(sid ebS( prog, a + 1 ) ) : spa ce~ 27- length : spacel = 27-length 1 

100 PR1NT#8/' I ' y ^rog/'.";sideb${proga);SPACE$(space);" I ";prog;'7';sideb${prog,a4l);SPACE$(spacel);" I ";NEXT 
prog:PRINT#8,STRING$(65,CHR$(95)):NEXT a:PRINT#8:PRINT#8:PR!NT#8 



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Another clever game here from Mr 
Gilbert, which sees you frantically 
tryiitg to avoid the oncoming skulls, 
by biding behind She walls, Hide 
successfully, and the skulls will dis- 
integrate, fail and yout die.The easi- 
est level is a doddle but if you want 
a suicide mission, try out level (I for 
a laugh, 




1 'Skull [711 

2 ' [72] 

3 " (C) Robin 'Pipeline Softwaro' Gilbert, January 1992 [73] 

4 1 [74] 

10 MODE XsiM 0.3: BORDER 3: INK 1,26: INK 2 ,6: INK 3,9; PAPER 0: 
PEN I : CLS : W JND0W#1 ,4,36,2,21: PAPER* , 3 ; CLS#1 ; a$= "SKULL" : FOR 
f = l TO 5:L0CATE 2,f*2:PRINT M IDS i aS . f , 1) : LOCATE 38,f*2:PRJNT 

MID$ ( a$ , f , 1 ) : NEXT: DIM sx(20l . sy( 20) ,n>sx(20) ,msy(20) [ 0C] 
20 SYMBOL 25 5 . GO , 1 26 , 90 , 1 2 6 , GO , 3G , 60 , 24 : s$=CHR$ { 255 ) : m$ = CHR.$ 
j 24 9) :w$=CHR$( 2 33 jh LOCATE 4 , 24 : INPlTT"Se 1 ec t Difficulty 0-9 ( 
^-easy): " ,d:IF d<0 OR d>9 THEN 20 FLS-E CLS*1 : FOR f- l TO \ ld 
: LOCATE 4 4RND*30 t 2^RND*19:PRTNT StR TNG$ ( H RND*f yw$) : NEXT: 1^0 
:x='20:y = 10 [82] 

30 sk = 8 l f 10-d) :PFN 0 : PAPER 3 : FOR f = l TO sh: r>x i f ) = I NT ( 4 t RND*3 
2hsy(f J = rNT(2 + RND*19) : LOCATE sjt ( f } , sy ( f ) : FR TNT s$:NKXt 1 F5 ] 
40 FOR f = 1 TO sk:PEN 2 : LOCATE x,y: PRINT m S : x s = - J * ( I NKEY ( 1 ) < > 
1 AND x < 36 ) + ( 1 * f I NKEY ( 8 K > - 1 AND x > 4 ) ) : yy = 1 * ( I NKEY (0)01 A 
N D y > 2 )-(]*( I NKEY { 2 X > - 1 AND y < 2 1 M [f>5] 

50 PEN 0 : IF sx(f)O0 THEN r =RNl^ h/ I 0 : msx ( f } - - 1 * f sx ( f ) < x AND 
r>0. 1 H( l*(sx( f )>x AND r > A . 1) ) : may { f ) = 1 * ( sy ( f ) AND r>0,M 
•+U*(sy(0>y AND r ) 0 . 1 }}: LOCATE ( sx ( f ) * ros x { f ) ) , ( sy ( f ) 4 msy ( f ) 
) ;z$=COPYCHR$(£0) [E7] 

BO IF LEN<z$)=0 AND sx<fK>0 THEN h=h+ I : LOCATE sx { f } , sy t f ) : P 
R I NT " " : sx( f }=0: SOUND 129,80.5: SOUND ],50,5;GOTO 80 ELSE IF 
zS=m$ AND sx{f)O0 THEN ROUND 129,500,100,1 5,0,0,31 : GOTO 100 
70 IF ABS{mr;x(f ) )+ABS(msy( f ) j <>0 THEN LOCATE sx f f ) , sy I f ) ; PR I 
NT" " : s.x( f ) =sxf f Nmsx{ f ) : syff ) =sy{ H tmsy ( f ) : LOCATE sx( f ) , r,yt 
f ) : PRINT s$ [ FR] 

80 msx ( f) =0 : msy { f ) =0 : I F h = sk THEN LOCATE 12,8: PR I NT "Contra Lu 
1 lions ! " : FOR f = 1 000 TO 50 STEP 25: SOUND I , f , f / 7 5 : NEXT : GOTO 
I 00 ELSE IF ABSf JcxMABS(yy1 00 THEN LOCATE x,y:PR?N3 : x- 
xH xx. : y = y + yy : xx = 0 : yy = 0 [OR] 

90 PAPER 0:PEN l:LOCATE 1 53 , 1 : PRINT sk-h: PAPER 3:NEXT;GOTO 40 
100 LOCATE 8 , 4 : PR I NT "Game over, press q kpy..";CLFAR TNPUT:W 
HTLE TNKEY$ = , " , : WEND: LOCATE l,24:PAPER Or PEN 1:PRINT STR T NG $ < 
^8 . 32 ) :GOTO 20 [ B2-] 



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Page 19 



How often have you heard the 
saying that 'Tact is stranger tfoait 
fiction"? I have heard it many 
times too but had never before come 
across an example that accurately fit- 
ted the description, Now I have, It 
involves amongst others, a man by 
the name of Tony Collins who owns 
The G uild, an Amstrad ad ventu re d i s- 
tribuEor and another man called John 
Wilson who owns Zenobi Software, a 
Spectrum adventure distributor. In 
the background are three adventure 
writers who called themselves Essen- 
tial Mvth until it became defunct. 
Page 20 



Where it starts to get interesting is 
when I mention that Essential Myth 
wrote an adventure for the Spectrum 
called Dr JEKYLL and Mr HYDE. 
They then sold the Spectrum rights to 
this game to Zenobi who have carried 
on distributing it to the Spectrum 
market ever since. Now this is where 
the story really starts. As there was 
not (and Zenobi have no intention of 
producing) an Amstrad version of 
JEKYLL & HYDE, Tony Collins con- 
tacted Lee Hodgson (one of the trio 
from Essential Myth) and obtained 
permission to produce an Amstrad 



version of their game.. The work was 
progressing nicely and 1 had been 
waiting for a finished version to re- 
view for you. 

That will now not happen however, 
as Zenobi have stated that they own 
ALL the rights to this game and that 
no conversions can appear with out 
their permission. Furthermore, they 
refuse to grant any such per mission. 
Now fair enough, if Zenobi were go- 
ing to do their own conversion then 
obviously they wouldn't want any- 
body else stealing their future sales, 
But they're not going to do any other 
Amstrad User 1992 



ADVENTURE 




conversions apart from the Spectrum, 
so what is the possible harm to Zenobi 
in allowing a third party to gain sales 
from the other machine formats, 
which they themselves have no inter- 
est in supplying? As I said at the 
beginning, this sounds like a bit of 

fiction but sadly it is all true. If you 
would like to play Dr JEKYLL & Mr 
] iYDK oti the Am.^iYid, then all J e-m 
suggest is that you drop John Wilson 
a line and tell him so and then he 
might change his mind. His address is 
26 Spotland Tops, CuEgate, Rochdale, 
Lanes, OL12 7NX + 
Amstrad User 1992 



My Lamp Won't Work 
Department 

As promised a few issues ago, here is 
the full solution to COLOSSAL AD- 
VENTURE, including the tricky tmd 
game, This version by LEVEL 9, was 
based upon CLASSIC ADVENTURE, 
which was based upon COLOSSAL 
CAVES, which originated as simply 
ADVENTURE, I could also add that it 
has been copied and satirized several 
times and formed the basis of many 
other adventures - but I won't. I will 
say however, that I find it fascinating 
that the Grandfather of all adventures 
is still being played today and that the 
puzzles are still as fresh as ever. 
Enough of this reminiscing, on with 
the solution: 

Start at the End of the Road, E 
DOWN TAKE COINS UP DROP 
CGIXS TAKE LAMP EXAMINE 



PLANT (it now projects through an 
opening above you). UP E DOWN 
FILL BOTTLE (with oil this time) UP 
W DOWN CLIMB PLANT W (note 
the inscription on the West wall) \ 
OIL GATE (it creaks open) DROP 
BOTTLE S TAKE EGGS S E UP E E 



LAMP TAKE KEYS TAKE BOTTLE E 
S S S TAKE SANDWICHES EXAM- 
INE SANDWICHES W FILL BOT- 
TLE S EXAMINE GRATE OPEN 
GRATE (using the key.) It is now 
unlocked. N N N E SAY PLUGH ON 
LAMP (you are no win the T2' Room) 
S DOWN W DOWN W W 
W W DOWN (the wilting 
seedling whispers: 
Water! Wa- 
ter]") WA- m 



- 

NW (you may have to repeat this until 
it works, and you should now be in 
the Oriental Room) W SW N CROSS 
BRIDGE (a Huge Troll appears and 
demands payment) GIVE EGGS {you 
will retrieve them later) CROSS 
BRIDGE FEE FIE FOE FOO (thes* 
latter four inputs will return the eggs 
to where you first found them!). 

NE E NE E TAKE SPICES W S 
DOWN DOWN IN FEED BEAK (with 
the sandwiches) OPEN CHAIN (us- 
ing the keys) TAKE BEAR TAKE 
CHAIN OUT UP UP W W CROSS 
BRIDGE (the greedy Troll appears 
again!) THROW BEAR (it sees off the 
Troll!!) CROSS BRIDGE SW DOWN 
SE SE NE E UP E UP N OFF LAMP 
SAY PLUGH (you are now back in the 
Brick Building) DROP CI IAIN DROP 
SPICES W S SS DOWN W TAKE 
CAGE ON LAMP W (note the' 
word J XYZZY on the wall here) I\ 
W W TAKE BIRD {in the cage) * > 

Continued an page 22 




TER PLANT 
{it grows and 
asks for more 
water) UP E E 
NE E UP E E 
DOWN FILL BOT- 
TLE UP W W 
DOWN W WWW 
DOWNWA 



Page 21 



ADVENTURE! 



W DOWN DOWN FREE BrRD (it sees 
off the snake!), 

DROP CAGE S TAKE JEWELLERY 
NSWW KILL DRAGON YES (you 
kill the Dragon with your bare ha nds ! ) 
TAKE RUG E E N N OFF LAMP SAY 
PLUGH DROP JEWELLERY DROP 
RUG SAY PLUGH (back to the 'Y2' 
Room) SAY PLOVER (you are now in 
the Plover Room) NE TAKE PYRA- 
MID S SAY PLOVER (back to the 'Y2' 
Room again) ON LAM PS TAKE BARS 
N OFF LAMP SAY PLUGH DROP 
PYRAMID DROP BARS SAY PLUGH 



ON LAMP S DOWN W DOWN W W 
W W DOWN CLIMB PLANT W 
(there's your eggs!) N N TAKE TRI- 
DENT S S TAKE EGGS S E UP E E NE 
E N OPEN CLAM (a pearl rolls away 
out of sight! ) S UP E UP N OFF LAMP 
SAY PLUGH DROP TRIDENT DROP 
EGGS, 

SAY XYZZY (you are now in the 
Room of Debris) TAKE ROD WWW 
DOWN STAKE NUGGET N W 
WAVE ROD (a crystal bridge appears 
and spans thechasm!) DROP ROD W 
TAKE DIAMONDS E E DOWN N N 
OFF LAMP SA Y PLUGH DROP DIA- 
MONDS DROP NUGGET SAY 
PLUGH OX LAMP S DOWN W 
DOWN E TAKE GAZETTE E DROP 
GAZETTE S (repeat until you are back 
in the Ante Room) W W NW (repeat 
until you move to the Oriental Room) 
N W OFF LAMP DROP LAMP E 
TAKE EMERALD W TAKE LAMP 
ON LAMP NW S TAKE VASE SE \-E 
E UP E UP N OFFLAMP SAY PLUGH 
DROP EMERALD [DON'T DROP 
THE VASE YET!!] SAY PLUGH ON 
LAMP S DOWN W DOWN W W E 
TAKE PILLOW W NE E UP E UP N 
OFF LAMP SAY PLUGH DROP PIL- 
LOW DROP VASE (it lands safely on 
the pillow). SAY PLUGH ON LAMP 
5 DOWN W DOWN N DOWN 
DOW N? TAKE PEARL UP UP S UP E 
UP S N S (repeat alternate North and 
South movements until an Elf ap- 
pears.) 

He is the Warrior who gave you the 
map to the Colossal Cavern. He then 
congratulates you and asks you to 
free his people) YES (the 'End game 
'now materialises, and you are at one 
end of a Huge Room) N S (there sail 
sorts of bits and pieces here!) TAKE 

Page 22 



KEYS TAKE LAMP TAKE DYNA- 
MITE ON LAMP N DROP DYNA- 
MITE SW TAKE ROD BLAST (vou 
kill most of the Evil Dwarfs and create 
a new exit to the West!). WWWUP 
UP UP UP UP E DOWN W W W 
WAVE ROD (the old bridge trick! [) W 
W W DOWN DOWN DOWN TAKE 
ELIXIR OFF LAMP DROP ROD T A KE 
PENTACLE UP UP UP E E E EEN 
(lots of skeletons are chained to the 
wall, here) DROP ELIXIR (all the skel- 
etons return to life!!) 

S W N OPEN CHAIN (to free rhe 
Elves) S S OPEN CHAIN (to free thy 
remaining Elves) NWWWW LOCK 
DOOR UP UP UP UP E (a huge blast 
will now rock the Dungeon as cold 
water meets hot lava! !) N TAKE ORB 
E EDROP KEYS TAKE SCEPTRE S W 
W (the Spider stares at your pentacle!) 
W (it now follows you) UP UP UP 
THROW PENTACLE {the Spider fol- 
lows it into spacef!) ON LAMP DOWN 
DOWN DOWN EE ES TAKE 
CROWN W N UP UP W WW W W 
(you aretfiow being gently swept along 
by the stream, your lamp remaining 
on!) UP (you are now on the edge of an 
underground reservoir) S S S E E UP 
E E E E E E UR 

FINAL MESSAGE "The Elves are 
waiting for you in a golden host sur- 
rou nd ing their King, They cheer wi I d ly 
as you emerge into the sun light" (Score 



out of 1100 depends on how many 
times you 'SAVED' and if you used 
the coins to renew the lamp batteries 
or not!!). 

There are several 'random' elements 
within this adventure, so it isnot pos- 
sible to indicate EXACTLY where or 
when they occur. The best thing to do 
is follow the procedures, detailed in 
these preliminary notes, to deal with 
each problem as and when it arises, 

(1) The first Dwarf you meet will 
throw an axe or small knife at you. It 
always misses the first time. Ignore 
the knife but get the axe. From then 
on, when you meet a Ehvarf, throw 
the axe and take it again. One throw 
will usually suffice but you may have 
to repeat the action, 

(2) When vou have some treasures 
the Pirate will rob you. To retrieve 
them {also the chest, which is itself a 
necessary treasure) go to the West 



End of the Hall of Mists Now follow 
these directions EXACTLY; S- E - S - S 
-S-NE-E- NW, You will now have 
found the chest containing your sto- 
len treasure, Take the chest AND your 
stolen treasures and proceed EX- 
ACTLY as follows: SE - N - DOWN - 



E - E - SAYXYZZY, You are now back 
at the Small Brick Building. Deposit 
the chestand treasures and resume 
w T here you left off. The Pirate will not 
return. 

(3) When you are told that the lamp 
is flickering, this is a warning that the 
batteries need replacing. Go back to 
the Small Brick Building and GET 
THE COINS. 'SAY PLUGH' and then 
'ON LAMP' then proceed EXACTLY 
as follows: S - S - UP - W - W - W ^ W 

- W - S - E - E - CLIMB, You will now 
have found the Vending Machine and 
you should 'DROP COINS'. The ma- 
chine will dispense new T batteries and 
your lamp is automatically 're- 
charged'. Now proceed: N - UP - E - E 
-E-E-E-DOWN-N-N-OFFLAMP 

- SAY PLUGH, You are now back at 
the Small Brick Building, As the coins 
were a necessary treasure, this proce- 
dure will deduct TEN points from 
your final score! This solution cuts a 
few unnecessary corners out, and fully 
utilises OX /OFF LAMP and the magic 
words: PLUGH, PLOVER and XYZZY 
to reduce the chances of needing re- 
placement batteries. 

(4) The 'Endgame' will materialise 
when ALL treasures have been col- 
lected and shortly after you are in- 
formed that the 'Caves are closing'. 

(5) Finally, each time you 'SAVE' 
your position, ONE point is deducted 
from your score, 

And so, with a fond tear in my eye 
for being reminded of many happy 
hours spent battling with the above 
game and with aching fingers from so 
much typing,, I will bid you farewell 
until next month. Happy adventur- 
ing- 



Please send all correspondence, 
hintSjr complaints, money, etc to:- 
Th eDun geon Mas ter. C/c> Amstrad 
Computer User, Sunnyside 
CQttage,Carluddofi, St Austell, 
Cornwall PL26 STY, 



Amstrad User 



1992 



HAIRY HACKER 



Ah, 'tis good to see that Sum- 
mer is a-coming again. Here's 
to the long, warm evenings, 
sitting outside your favourite tippling 
.spot, watching the last of the sun's 
rays disa ppear in to the bottom of your 
beer-mug. That is, of course, if you 
happen to live in the West Indies. 

For the rest of us, here's to looking 
out of your back window, watching 
the water level inch higher with each 
passing raindrop. Funnily enough, I 
heard a meteorologist (good word 
that) saying the other day that, due to 
changes in the Ozone layer and all 
that, we are due for some particularly 
wet summers for a while. Strange, eh? 
I thought that was the norm! 

Oh well, enough of that. As long as 
my office and rny Arnold don't get 
wa terlogged , V 11 be ha ppy . Right, now 
to business. This month especially for 
all you Dizzy freaks, and I know that 
there are literally thousands of you 
out there judging by the pleas I get in 
my mailbag every month, we are go- 
ing to be giving out the ultimate in 
playing tips for Prince of the Yolk 

fv.ik. v 






Amstfad User May 



This month sees the 
revenge of Dizzy, as 
Mr Hacker sees you 
through the entire 
YolkFolk blast, with a 
little help from his 
friends 



If any of you still can't complete the 
game after this little lot, then there 
must be something seriously wrong 
somewhere, 

To kick off, get your laughing gear 
around this little lot which forms a 
complete guide around the game. 
Follow it to the letter and you'll have 
completed the game, almost, 

L-Ga Left a room 
R=Go Right a room 

Continued Overleaf 

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HAIRY HACKER 



PRINCE OF THE YOLK FOLK 






Castle 
Ramparts 

4 


Castle 
Ramparts 

4 


■ 


P The 
Castle 
Garden 

44 


Castle 
Draw- 
bridge 

4 


Inside 

the 
Castle 


Stairs 
& 

Landing 


Rear 
Entrance 


A Few 
Trees 

4 


Trapped 
(Start) 

4 


Top 
of the 
HiU 

4 




A 
Secret 
Cavern 

4 


Hill 

Side 

4 




Clouds 

1 



4 



Clouds 



Bank 
of the 
River 
Styx 



U=Go Up a room 
D=Go Down a room. 



Get matches.Get leaves, Get jug of 
water, Go to the door. Drop the 
leaves .Drop the matches .Drop the jug 




of water X, speak to Jester but don't 
get the magic carpeLL, pick up pick- 
axe, R, jump up.R,R,R Jump onto 
cloud, jump onto next cloud. Get the 
bridge kit then get back to first 
cloud, D y drop pick-axe by 
roc ks L L,U, pick up the gold 
nugget. D,R,R, jump onto boat to get 
across River Styx.Ferryman will take 
the gold nugget, R,U, jump onto 
led ge. Drop bridge ki t J urn p right onto 
cloud Jump onto lower cloud and walk 
off to the right(I will abbreviate this 
method by giving the instructions 
R,R,D from the ledgeKGet harp.L, 
jump onto ledge.L;U,U,L, jump over 
clouds into heaven. Talk to 
St. Peter Give St, Peter the harp, Get 
cheese. Jump right onto cloud .Walk 
off to the left and fall down to the 
fluffy cloud below Jump left U,L, talk 
to lion. Get cage, R,D,R,R,R. Drop 
cage by Pogie the Ruffle . Drop C h eesa 

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Get cage. L,L,L,U,L,L,UL. Drop cage 
by Rockwort the TrolLL, jump onto 
ledge. Jump right. Get outboard mo- 
tor. L,L,U,R, Get Key, L,D,R,R,R,R, 
R,R,D,R,R. Give motor to ferryman. 
Get scythe. R,U, Jump onto ledge. 
R,R,D,Drop scythe by thorns. R, Get 
bugle. Jump left, L.IJ^S^R.U. Drop 
key by door. D,jump left over stone 
blocks.L,L,L,Get tweezers,Walk off 
tower . L,L, L ,L ,L,U, L , Drop t w eezer s 
on lion, Get thorn. L,L. Drop bugle on 
Jes ter , R, R, R , D,R ,R,R, U,R, R, D,R, j ump 
upX.U.R.R.RJump up.L, drop thorn 
on floor.R,jump down,L,Evil Dizzy 
will be destroyed when it walks over 
the thornGet Spanner ,L,L, D,R Jump 
dow T n^,L,L,L,L,L,U,L,L,L.Get 
jokebcK)kX,L,jump up,L f L>drpp span- 
ner, R,R,jump down, L,L,Ly speak to 
Princess. Drop jokebook on 
Princess, Get fla g, R,R,R„ jump up- L,U f 
jump up. Drop flag by pole.Speak to 
Jester.Speak to King.D,K,jump down. 
R / R,R,R,R,D,R,R,R,U,R,R,D,R,jump 
up.L/U,R,R,R,U,kiss Daisy until she 

wakes up- 

Phew! Have you got all that? I'm 
telling you, that is pretty comprehen- 
sive and should see you right through 
from start to finish. However, if you 
get that far and find you still haven't 



received the chequered flag, then you 
probably haven't been keeping your 
eyes open and collecting all of the 
cherries. 

Never fear! There are 20 cherries in 
all and, although many of them are in 
pretty straightforward places, some 
are more difficult to find. For those of 
vou who have not worked out all of 
the hiding places yet here they are, in 
glorious monochrome: (See table,) 

That, as they say, is that. My thanks 
go out to Daniel Prest, of Brentwood 
in Essex, who slaved over a hot CPC 
for many moons to bring all of this to 
your attention. Well done Daniel I'll 
see if I can't get a little something in 
the post for your troubles. 

To cap it all, why not cast your 




beady eyes over the visual experience 
of Dizzy, Prince of the Yolk Folk, 
Natalie Sayers, of Erith in Kent, is the 
proud cartographer of this little 
beauty, which not only displays the 
layout of all of the rooms, but also 
gives a pretty fair indication of where 
the cherries are to be found. 

I suppose we ought to send apolo- 
gies to the Codies after all this, seeing 
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little note from a certain Jim K of 
Hayes, Middlesex, who has kindly 
supplied a coupk of multiface pokes 
for Continental Circus. They are as 
follows: 



uly 

ids 


Upper 
most 
Branches 




Deserted 
Tower 

4 




Enchanted 


A 


Edee 


First 


Double 


Inner 




Tree 


Narrow 


of the 


Landing 


Trouble 


Sanctum 




Tops 

4 


Ledge 


Tower 


4 






4 


4 


4 


man 

u« get 

Hjget 

ritr 


The 

Enchanted 
Forest 

44 


A 

Perilous 
Jump 


Draw 
Bridge 

4 


Tower 
Ballroom 





as we have rather spoiled the sus- 
pense of the game. But, after all, that's 



what hacking and cheating is all about, 
what? 

Before we leave the subject of Dizzy 
well alone for another month, try 
pressing C on the opening screen of 



i 



Spellbound Dizzy for a little look at 
the Cheat Mode. You never know, it 
may prove to be very helpful in solv- 
ing those awful conundrums, 

Oh, and by the way, apologies to the 
Codies again, but if you hold down 
the keys D R A G O N on the title 
screen of Little Puff, you'll get infinite 
lives. 

Thai's enough of that, I've had a 



2763 00 For infinite retries 
0B83 00 For infinite time. 

Thanks Jim, In the same letter, was 
a plea for help- on Chuckle Egg II 
asking, in particular, for an infinite 
lives cheat. Well, f will certainly cast 



Above the dungeon in TRAPPED 
By the torch in A FEW TREES 
Behind the small cage in TOP OF THE HILL 
Near the gold nugget in TOP OF THE HILL 
By the rocks in HILLSIDE 
Under a railing in THE ENCHANTED FOREST 
Under Pogie the Ruffle in THE ENCHANTED FOREST 
Under a railing in ENCHANTED TREETOFS 
By some stone blocks in EDGE OF THE TOWER 
On the cloud in FLUFFY CLOUD 
On the rampart in CASTLE RAMPARTS 
On the stairs in CASTLE RAMPARTS 
In the boshes in TOWER DRAWBRIDGE 
Beneath a roof tile in FIRST LANDING 
Behind a strange mechanism in INNER SANCTUM 
By the wall in THE DESERTED TOWER 
Behind the greasy spanner in DOUBLE TROUBLE 
Under a clump of grass in CASTLE DRAWBRIDGE 
Under a clump of grass in THE CASTLE GARDENS 
Under a stone block in THE CASTLE GARDENS 



Amstrad User May 1992 



around and see if 1 cant come up with 
anything. However, in the mean time, 
if anyone out there knows of such a 
cheat, I know one person who would 
be glad to get his hands on it. 

Anyone who can help should write 
to me at the usual address, and Til 
make sure that it gets printed* 

Well, that's about it for this month, 
What I will say, though, is that if you 
are a Cybemoid fan, then you would 
be best advised to tune into next 
month's issue, where a certain Niall 
Brady's totally redesigned Level One 
poke will he on proud display- Fair 
enough? 

As we end this little outing, I will 
leave you with the thought for today, 
which is, if Typhoo put the T in Brit- 
ain, who on Earth left the Zebra in my 
coffee percolator? 

Answers on a postcard please, as 
I'm determined to catch the blighter. 
See you next month. 




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Put on your protective clothing and join in as 
the ACU crew plays with the dynamite of TNT 
2, goes a-leaptng on the platforms of Rainbow 
Islands and joins Super Seymour in the latest 



ies' outing, 





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BOMB ALLEY I 



This is yet another ex- 
ample of the old 
games adage, that the 
simplest is the best, The 
gamepiay itself is a doddle 
to get the hang of but if you 
actually want to succeed, 
you 11 have to be very,, very 
good l 

On top of that Seymour 
Saves the Planet has to be 
one of the most addictive 
new games on the market at 
the moment; The aim of the 
game? Simplicity itself* All 
you have to do is jump 
around the screen, collect- 
ing the various flashing 
items in the correct order. 

To earn the highest scores, 
be sure to watch the items 
carefully, be they barrels, 
boxes, crates, or whatever. 
Sometimes the flashing or- 
der will be quite straight 
forward, However, on 
other levels, be prepared for 
sortie quick changes of di- 
rection. 

Collect all of the items in 
the correct sequence and 



you will corn increasing 
bonus point for your ef forte- 
Go out of sequence and 
you'll get nowt until you 
get back to the correct path. 

To make matters that Ut- 
ile bit more devilish, your 
progress is set against the 
clock which means that if 



you 



it to the SUPER * 




next object within the set — 
time limit, it will explode, mJG jf 
leaving you to start your 
bonus path afresh. 

Controlling Seymour is 
pretty easy, once you learn 
how to direct the super- 




M 





jumps and once you ve 
worked out your technique, 
you can pretty well clear a 
screen in a flash. Well you 
could if it wasn't for the 
obnoxious baddies, whose 






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sole task is to stop you in 
your tracks. 

There are all manner of 
ugly beasties to contend 
wilh as you progress, nine; 
ing from things that resem- 
ble Zebedeefrom The Magic 
Roundabout, to hamburg- 
ers and some very ornate 
flying haggises! 

Dealing with the first of 
these is fairly easy. AH you 
have to do is jump on them 
and then proceed bo crush 
them into the dust, Quite a 
pleasing occ u pa tion i t is too. 
As for the hamburgers, well 
these i .111 be pretty flighty 
beggars. Watch their move- 
ments carefully and make 



Get jumping if you want to hel| 
Seymour save the Planet! 




sure you don't get trapped 
in their path, otherwise it's 
curtains for vou. l ime your 
jump to perfection and you 
can crush these as welh As 
for the haggises just hit them 
and run for your life before 
they explode. 

Each monster arrives in 
accordance with the 
Mutacounler ^^^muBBai™ 

torn of the 1 

screen so, if igl? 

you want to jgjj^l 

clear up Ipl fc^^ 

your level W^M 

and earn ex- SSI 



more beasts arrive. 

Super Seymour is a belter 
of a game. Totally addicti ve 
and great fun to play. If you 
are after something a little 
bi t d i f f er en t, ma ke su re this 
one is on your list. 

linJotaGon 



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It's about time this one 
made it on to the budget 
shelves as it is just about 
the ultimate in platform 
games. Simple, addictive 
and a joy to play, you just 
can' t bea t it in the fun stakes. 
The basic aim of the game 
is to make it to the top of 
each increasingly difficult 
level before the water level 
rises and engulfs you. 

There are seven different 
islands in all, ranging from 
the creepy crawlies of In- 
sect Island, through Com- 
bat Island, Monster Island, 
Toy Island, Doh's Island, 
Robot Island and, finally, 
the mythological beasts of 
Dragon Island. 

However, as well as tack- 
ling everything that the 
baddies can throw at you, 
you must also confront the 
big bad guardian at the end 
of each level, Destrov him 
and you can proceed. Fail 
and you must start all over 
again, 

Your only weapon to help 
you past the baddies is the 
ability to throw rainbows. 
Don't be alarmed though, 
as these can have pretty 
devastating effects, quite 
apart from being useful to 
your progress, 

First and foremost, stand- 
ing on top of your rainbow 
makes higher platforms 
much more accessible, 
speeding up your journey 
and keeping you away from 
the rising water level- 
As you confront the 
baddies, throwing a rain- 
bow at them w T ill instantly 



d es troy them . Som e o f these 
enemies will leave behind 
valuable goodies under 
your rainbow, so jump on 
top of it to break it and 
collect the booty , 

Breaking a rainbow will 
also send it crashing to the 
floor, crushing any Hung 
underneath it. Good news 

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progress more easily, The 
magic shoes will speed you 
up no end, while the red 
and yellow potions will add 
to your rainbow^ counE and 
the speed with which you 
can throw them, 

At all times in this fast 
paced outing, keep your 



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eyes on the water level and, 
when the Hurry message 
appears/ get to the top as 
quickly as you can, to avoid 
drowning. 

If you haven't treated 
yourself to this one yet, 1 
advise you to do so now. 
The graphics are bright and 
colourful the sound effects 
are neat and, overall, this is 
one game that'll hook you 
from thy very start. 

JffliHmon 




Can you help Bub 
and Bob to get 
through the mazes 
of the Islands? 



1UF 



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on the later levels. Along 
the way, there are afl man- 
ner of items to col lec t To do 
this, simply walk into them 
or hit them with a rainbow. 
Hidden objects can also be 
found by running a rain- 
bow along the ground, so 
keep your eyes peeled at all 
times far a likely spot 

This also goes for the 
many hidden rooms in the 
game. Each level has one, 
so hunt around and make 
sure you get all of the good- 
ies available to vou. 

On top of the normal 
booty there are also special 
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our fists and your feet — 
are your only weap- 
ons as vou enter the 
ray on the bandstand in New 
York's Central Park, Do you 
know how to use them?If 
you've read the manual on 
this little offering, then you 
should have a fair idea If vou 
haven't I suggest that you 
do. 

It isn't that the moves are 
that difficult, it's just that 
there are quite a few of them 
and, seeing that the bad guy8 
are particularly uncompro- 
mising in Last Ninja 2, your 
best bet would be to meet 
them on equal footing, if you 
want to stand a chance at suc- 
cess. 

Starting off, your first task 
is to find your way off of the 
ban^tand.,Ok, -o the 
trapdoor lool^B^mg, but 
how do you open it?Welx a 
quick trip behind ::ie curtain 
migfebPadvantageou^Here 
you'll meet your first op However, don't take too out for traps and obstacles at 
nent., unci ho ain't no sloucr^| long on your search, or you awry corner and, if you find 
either,, ?o uork oul your could find your opponents' one you don't seem to be able 
moves ir advance, d^ht 
whethe i u're going to kick 





Take on your arch enemy Shogun in a 
bout of oriental artistry. 




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go t^Fork, 

ach of the successive 




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<r i : s l: s : : 1 1 J to o verco me , don' t forget the 
uther basil 



ok! somersault routine. This 
is extremely handy, helping 
you to dodge unwanted at- 
tention as well as leaping 
over sticky patches.Master it 
and it could save your bacon 
on more than one occasion. 

Remember at all times that 
Last Ninja 2 is designed for 
three dimensional play, so 
be careful when you move in 
for atack, as you could find 
yourself pun citing thin air, 
while your opponent gets in 
a few free shots at your ex- 
pense- 
All in all, Last Ninja 2 is a 
cleverly designed offering, 
giving hours of nailbiting ten- 
sion as you try to defeat the 
shogun" s hordes.One thing 
though, this one is a multi- 
load, so don't forget to keep 
the cassette in while you 
play. I know lots of you will 
turn the page after this rev- 
elation but, if you have the 
patience, Last Ninja 2 is cer- 
tainly a rewarding game, and 
well worth the wait for the 
separate levels. 



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The aim of the game is to 
work your way through the 



difficult levels contains d host rily streets, sewers, on to the 
of puz^g^pd conundrums ( h-num Factory, through the 

office block and, finally, to 



for vt 1 1 \ to sol ve . Finding .kt;} ' s 
ll' i-i x st problem but, after 
that/be sure h> hunt around 
in every lucatktfi in order to 
find extra weaponry, maps 
and ere 1 



- Siiogi i n's secret defeat, where 
via] muse confront your en- 




emy in ti li:V:l co iTTTDhtation. 

To get there, you '1 3 need all 
of your wits about you. Watch 



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Amstrad User May 1B92 



BOMB ALLEY 






It's a whole new 
ballgame! Test out 
your cue skills to 
the limit. 



This one's been knock- 
ing around for a fair 
while, but now thai 
it's out on the budget label, 
it means that even more of 
you can have a crack at it. 

From the very moment 
you start playing, this is a 
simulator with a 
difference .Instead of getting 
a cue action, all you see is an 

Amstrad User May 1992 




excellent 3D representation 
of the pool table, balls and 
all Have a read through the 
manual and you'll see that 
playing the game isn't half 
as difficult as it looks in fact, 
it's almost a doddle, 

I say almost, because you 
never know quite where the 
balls are going to finish up 
after a shot, unless you're a 
pro, that is. 

First things first and, if I 
were you, I'd try out the 
demo and practice modes 
first. Here, you can get a 
birds eye view of all the 
moves, as well as your po- 
tential opponents who are 
making them. 

With a host of options at 
your fingertips, you can se- 
lect any opponent to prac- 
tice against, apart from the 



Supreme Champ Maltese 
Joe, of course. Playing the 
game ilself, you enter a tour- 
nament in the quarter final 
stages, taking on a compu- 
ter opponent, or a friend, in 
a best of three frames play- 
off.Win that and you 
progress to the semis. 

If you have mastered the 
actions, you may even get 
through to the best of five 



qualifyin g f ina 1 . However, it 
doesn't stop there, as Mal- 
tese Joe awaits the winner 
for a head to head play-off, 
for til* ultimate champion- 
ship trophy. 

All you need to do to get 
the high breaks, is line up 
the white ball with the ball 
you want to hit, using the 
joystick to gain the correct 
angle, After that, ifs up to 
you to select any swerve 
and the position where you 
want to hit the cue balLIf all 
goes well, your colour 
should shoot down the 
pocket .If not, then your turn 
is over. 

Take care not to give away 
too many foul sho te, a s your 
opponents are usually 
pretty good, and try to think 
about where the white is 
going to end up, just in case 
you miss your shot. 

Ail in all, this is pretty 
good stuff, particularly 
when you add the trick shot 
section on the end as 
well. Here, you must take 
on all manner of challenges, 
with an editor option to 
boot, giving you the chance 
to set up your own devilish 



A good read through the 
manual is advisable before 
you go off creating but that 
said, the rules are fairly easy 
to pick up, If you like a good 
game of Pool then you are 
certainly going to like this 
offering, Well put together 
and featuring plenty of hid- 
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C&PENASTFIfS LIP 
written w- PETES WILLIAMSON 



least, is the excellent Guard- 
ian Angel blast, in which 
you, as the hero, must take 
to the streets and clear them 
of villainous scum. 

Set in downtown Man- 
hattan, the thugs are out to 
stop your little game/ so be 
on the lookout at all 
times Just to make tilings 
even nastier, some of these 
thugs are armed with flick- 
knives, baseball bats, iron 
bars and even chain saws. 




Another gruesome foursome from the Codies' 
stable hits the streets. 



Think you're quick 
enough to take them all 
on?You'd better be, as you 
are the only hope of the 
honest, god-fearing citi- 
zens, so go out and do your 
worst, 

So, what do we have 
here? Yet another blistering 
compilation of codies' fa- 
vourites for your delecta- 
tion. Each of the games is 
brilliantly crafted, and each 
offers its own particular 
brand of blasting and beat- 
ing. 

In other words, if you like 
a bit of mindless violence 
on your small screen from 
time to time, then you'd be 
siDy to miss out on this one- 

John Taylor 




ere we go with yet 
another classic four- 
in-one blast from 
pse masters of the budget 
market, Code Masters.This 
time the theme is combat 
so, if you are a little on the 
squeamish side, stay well 




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clear of this bash + 

First up is the epic SAS 
Combat offering, which 
sees you bombarding 
through four different bat- 
tle areas, taking out the evil 
enemy leaders as you go. 
Well, not just the leaders, 
but their whole armies as 
well. 

This is definitely not for 
the faint-hearted, as you 
race against enemy troops, 
mercenaries, commandos, 
paratroopers and a whole 
host of obstacles to reach 
your goal. 

Armed with just your 
machine gun and a limited 

Paee 32 



supply of grenades, be sure 
to pick up fresh supplies as 
you go in this rough, tough 
action blast. 

Next up is Mig 29, which 
sees you taking on bomb- 
ers, ships, tanks and just 
about everything else in a 
race to be lord of the 
skies. Featuring realistic 
take off and landing se- 
quences, this is one high- 
speed thrill you won't want 
to miss out on, especially as 
your finger is on the nu- 
clear trigger. Hot stuff! 

For those of you who like 
that little something differ- 
ent, how about taking up a 
Turbo Chopper for a spin. 
Piloting the latest in Viet- 
nam war weaponry, use 
your heat-seeking missiles 
and guided bombs well, to 
ta ke on t a n y thing t ha t looks 
remotely hostile. 

This is real pulse racing 
stuff from the very start and, 
seeing as there are over 25 
mega -battles to take part in, 
there is certainly no chance 
of getting bored .This one 
will keep you on your toes 
at all times and, on top of 
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JKJLiJU) 

CUP 




Is it late, or is it 
ear ly? Who 
cares, you 
can't beat a bit 
of footie man- 



agement 

I i\ on r t care \ v IMafty bod y 
say 1 --, I still think it's a bit 
silly to have the next World 
Cup m America, where they 
don't even know the rule* 
of footie properly, and want 
to split each game tip into 
Idtir quarters, to fit in the 
adverts! 

iesi&es that, nil the 
matches are going to be 
played at unearthly hours 
of the day, so thai most of 
n s w i 11 onl y be able to wa f c h 
videosand highlights of the 
important matdlfes. 

Ah well, .what can you 
do? I'll teftyou, you get hold 
of lilts smart little DUting 
from D&H Games and play 
the World Cup for yourself, 
in the comfort of your ow n 
room, at whatever hour ojf 
the day you choose. 

ku nning this lift lc [ >r< >gg ie 
gives you the choice to man- 
age any one of the ttip teams 
in the World, with the 



4ms trad User May 1992 





ORLD 
CUP 



chance to take them all the 
way to £he top, However, 
things aren't ay easy as all 
that, as you'd expect from a 
management game. 

Picking the team is your 
f ins t nig h t ma re . Th en yo u ' v e 
got the training and fitness 



Of your players to worry 
about, let alone the morale. 

Check out which group 
you have been selected to 
play in, then take time out 
to investiga te the teams you 
are going to have to face on 
the way to the final 

To start with, your team 
is going to be pretty happy, 
fust to be in the 
even Li low ever, if you don't 
field the right team and you 
start off on a losing streak, 
things a re going to get pretty 
tough in the changing 
rooms. 

Use your scout wisely to 
cheek on any particular lac- 
ties that need to be taken 



•■- ■ , I 

care of, then look very care- 
fully .jfltrough your sqftiad 
to pick what you think is 
gooing to be your best tea m 
against each individual op- 
ponent, .. -a - 1 

If you make the right 
choices at the beginning, 
you should find yourself 
emerging from the qualifi- 
ers with flying 
colours, However, from 
here on in, thi ngs start get- 
ting tougher. 

Ay with all footie man- 
tigemcnt games, World Cup 



Football is all about main- 
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act between vour plavers 
and your financesTo be a 
goodpanager, you need to 
be able to keep your eyes on 
all aspects of the game, at 
all times. Basically, to sue- 
ceed you will need all of 
your wits about you all of 
Sfe time. 

When you make the right 
decisions, the results are 
certain ly re wa r d i n g, w MI s t 
making the wrong ones will 
simply make you want to 
get down and start over 
again T rememLm> if at first 
mou don't succeeds 

Tlufre's plenty to do in 
this well conceived offering 
and, if vou like strate^v 
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If you've never tried this 
gem before, you won't 
know just what a tough 

cookie it is Just like the real 
thing, this isn't about tak- 
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fox a burn-up on the 
motorways -This is about 
rough and tumble action on 
some of the fiercest rally 
courses in Europe, If y 
want to stand a cha 
you'll have to be verjynSBB 

good. Otherwise vqiffitfWw 
end up as an also-r 

Before you start racing, 
checking ou 
menus is 
with, ma 
the opti 

easiest setting, otherW 
the novices amongst you 

p ick the siit^jffiN^& 
ing option, automatic 
Eges and 

sitivity to start witn; 
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either in England, t m- 
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imaginerLTer: d iff ere 
in driving c 
fake yd 
a$t off 
If everything see 
and ling ok, then sec 
ge I Li ng yourself in vol v 
a season, or even try chan 
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Js you 

parirrg MHBjffflVSf 11 s 
ds all-iliportant.Each 

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ffiHraus is ml(re I y fun c- 

j^^^MfflUf you want to 

Si^my chance of making 

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d i re ction changes, your bes t 

bet is THBtout out the route 

advmce, leaving cryptic 

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1 points, to remind y 

what action to take. 

Once this is done, taking 

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slightly less of 

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though you'l 

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be quick to ^nake it within 
the correct time limit 

Toyota Celica is full of 
options, to make tne gam 
as intere sting as 
possible, You certainly 
wasn't crack the top ranks 
first time out but, with 
:ence and skill, you 
should begin 
name for you rsc If before too 
iong. With the save and load 
options included, you can 
leave off and return to your 






Rally action at its level best. Can y 
your head at the corners? 




oblem 
blind, 
have to 



like, which has to be goo 

news. ji^^^^ 

If by aiyy chance, you do 
siK cc'L-d very swiftly/ then 
this game has even got 
some jhin^fbrsmarty pants 
in the form of reverse steer- 

Once you have completed 
the course with normal 
steering, why not try chang- 
rmmd, so that when 

you turn to the leTL you 

ajl^go r ight and 
versa. This may >ou^ 
doddle but, if you've ev 
tri^d riding one of those 




of rallying to bu 
gem a ndfcu certainly won't . 
be able to put it down in a 
ievdes, youll know hurry The graphics may be 
what a nightmare this is. a little m&v.oUwc but the 
^^Un ail, Toyota Cdick gamepMmore than makes 
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Amstrad User May 1992 




THEV NEUER THOUGHT HE MOULD RETURN . 
NOU HAUOK REIGKS THE UNDERCITV . 




Only you can 
avenge the death of 
the Bladeknights. 
Only you can face 
the terror of Havok. 



X&vok has returned! 

I 1 After 1 0,000 years of 

J- Apeaceful existence, 
the innocent inhabitants of 
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Thraxx, including the 
mighty Bladeknights, have 




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to witness the horror of the 
onslaught. 

That man is you,, Hiro, 
last of the Bladeknights, 
whose task it is to go out 
into the Underrity, collect- 
ing the shattered shards of 
the Blade, to avenge the 
death of yoxw people. 

Phew! That all sounds a 
bit epic, don't you think? 
Well, to be fair, ihe 
game play is pretty epic as 
welL Armed with your 
superpowered Cyber arm, 
you must explore all of the 
rooms and corridors of the 
Undercity, carefully tracing 
the last resting places of the 
sixteen pieces of the 
Fireblade. 

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pect things to be easy, so 
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times for the horrible muta- 
tions that Havok calls his 
army, 

Mansnakes, Kobras, 
Flamehogs, Scorpoids, 
Kept! Ions and Crestheds; 
these are just a few of the 
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face on the hunt for the 
sword. 

All of them are capable of 
delivering death in nasty 
doses but you aren't totally 
unarmed yourself There 
are various power-ups to 
be found on your route, in- 
eluding darts, spinblades 



and the ferocious 
Scorchball. Use your weap- 
ons wisely, and time your 
shots using the power me- 
tre, to get the best results, 
As you proceed, your 
journey will be mapped out 
for you, helping you to keep 
a track on your location. 



Beware of the Boss enemies 
at strategic points during 
your progress These are 
particularly nasty and could 
lose you much needed spare 
lives if you're not careful. 

Of course, once you have 
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the Blade, your firepower 
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boundary and knock Havok 
out of his shoes. 

Go to it Hiro, Thraxx is 
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39 



A LITTLE DESIGN 




Bob Adams casts his beady eye over the 
latest updates to the MicroDesign suite. 



Long time users of the CPC may 
well have used or remember 
reading about a program by the 
name of MICRODESIGN, This was 
released by Siren Software in 1987 
and wciji billed as "a fast and versatile 
drafting package, designed to pro- 
duce graphic artwork and technical 
drawings on a dot matrix printer"". 



Page 40 



The competition at that time consisted 
of two main rivals - ART STUDIO and 
STOP PRESS. Users of MicroDesign 
mainly agreed that the speed, profes- 
sional feel and print quality was in- 
deed superior to the competition but 
it didn't do enough in other areas to 
make it a genuinely user- friendly 
product. 

Amstrad User May 1992 



DESIGN 



Enter one Peter Campbell He 
thought highly enough of the 
MicroDesign program so he offered 
Siren Software a list of improvements 
that he felt would turn it into a win- 
ner, Unfortunately, Siren were not 
interested and that was how it stayed 
until they stopped supporting the 
product altogether in Janu- 
ary 1991, The program 
rights then re- 
turned to its 
original 



program as this is purely an upgrade 
that needs the source files from vour 
original disc. Installing the upgrade is 
very simple and is done for you auto- 
matically, compiling and dumping the 
new enhanced program to a fresh 
disc; If you haven't got the original 

MicroDesign 
never fear, as 
CampurSof t 
can supply you 
with that as 
well. 




a u - 
thor s, 
Hogsoft, 
Peter, not 

man to give up, eas- ™Wf. 
tfy even though several ^ita 
years had now passed, then con- 
tacted Hogsoft with his ideas for im- 
proving the program and they agreed 
to let him go ahead. This then gave 
Peter a problem, as he was an ideas 
man but not a programmer. Fate was 
smiling on him however, and he made 
the acquaintance of Jess "I think in 
machine code" Harpur. There then 




followed a three way collaboration 
between Hogsoft (who are now called 
Creative Technology Ltd,) Jess Harpur 
and Peter Campbell, resulting in a 
complete enhancement package for 
the original MicroDesign program 
now being available, called 
MfCRODHBlGN PLUS. 

So what do you get for your money? 
First of all, you must have the original 



Once insta 1 1 ed , the following en ha n to 
ments become available: 




Amstrad User May 1992 



1) Quicker loading time. 

2) Second drive support - 3" or 3.5" 
format, 

3) Access to 10 user areas per disc, 

4) ROM DOS, M S800 and BIG 
BONZO Q03K) compatibility. 

5) ASCII to DR conversion. 

6) Screen file to DR conversion. 

7) STOP PRESS clip-art to DR con- 
version. 

8) STOP PRESS page to DR conver- 
sion. 

9) Soft reset/quit to BASIC, 

10) User- friendly ink colour and 
printer driver menu. 

All the above are in addition to the 
existing features of the original. The 
choice of Layout page (A4 upright A4 
sideways or strip format), manipulat- 




ing blocks (copy, move and erase},, 
drawing icons, lines and shapes, fill, 
text and zoom are all still there. 

What I like about it all is that it is 
such an easy to program to use, 
CampurSof t do supply a nicely printed 
manual (produced by their own pro- 
gram I'm pleased to say) which ex- 



plains all the finer points but I doubt 
if you'll need it much. The whole 
program is menu driven and the 
menus are on screen alongside the 
working area. All you need is just the 
ability to be able to press the right key 
and the next operation will be per- 
formed for you, Even I can cope with 
tha t What I can't cope with however, 
is drawing. J cannot draw on paper, 
let alone on a computer screen but 
once again, CampurSoft have the an- 
s wen On side two of the enhancer disc 
are 30 items of clip-art, converted to 
the correct format and alt ready for 
use. 

Finally,. I must mention the after- 
sales support, Peter and Jess are con- 
tinuing to work on and develop this 
program still further, so who knows 
what the future may hold, but for 
now they will be running a help line 
for anybody that is seeking guidance. 
Details are in the manual 

This is really a great improvement 
over the old version and allows for 
much more versatility of use. Your 
creativity need no longer be cramped 
by the program. 



Available bv Mail Order fro 
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Gallowgate,GlasgowG3l 1 UAM1 
554 4735 Price; £l3-75.0riginal 
MicroDesign £19-99 {Was £24- 
99) Both MicroDesign and 
MicroDesign Plus £29-99. 

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PD SCENE 





Time for a little 
illumination in 
Uncle Bob's latest 



PD Foray- 




Page 42 



Psst! Want to see some pretty 
pictures? Well that awfully 
clever man David Carter of PEN- 
GUIN SOFTWARE has been at it 
again, converting 16bit, 4096 colour 
graphics from the Amiga into a for- 
mat that we can view on our CPCs. 
The disc is imaginatively called, 
AMIGA GRAPHICSTWO (and why 
not?) and despite my plea last time, he 
still hasiV tincluded a text file to ex- 
plain how he has done it. Never mind, 
the pictures are superb and I hope that 
the screen shots have reproduced onto 
paper better than they did last time 
and have really done them justice. 
The pictures range from gruesome 
skeletons to characters from Star Wars, 
from fruits and butterflies to cars and 
aircraft, so everybody should be able 
to find a favourite. 

David tells me that the original 
Amiga graphics disc has proved to 
bethe best seller of his entire library 
and I expect that this new one will do 
as well. All the screens are shown as a 
continuous slide show on each side of 
the disc and they are amazing for their 
clarity and quality. Without doubt, 

Am s trad User May 1092 



■ 



PD SCENE 




some of the finest graphics ever seen 
on a CPC Perhaps the slides scrolled 
past just a little too fast for my liking 
but I expect that this can be altered 
with a little experimenting (ie; hack- 
ing - but don't let David catch you 
doing it !) The copy-charge onto your 
own disc is only £1 and you get a 
disccrammed full with 45 screens. 
Please add 40p postage for any number 
of discs or you can send your own 
SAE instead. The address to send to is 
in the panel (takes a C|uick look to 
check that it's there) below. 

At the same time, why not ask Pen- 
guin for their latest (produced bi- 
monthly) catalogue disc which will 
take up one side of your own discand 
is totally free. I have a copy of the 
February disc and it notonly includes 
a full list of the Penguin PD library, 
letters, graphics, a couple of programs, 
and a musical demo that is well worth 
turning the volume up to listen to - but 
it also contains a marvellous menu 
screen full of some wonderfully cute 



penguins. Great stuff David. 



The other great news this month is 
the rebirth of the WACCI magazine. 
Although WACCI is not entirely de- 
voted to Public Domain software, 
itdoes have a substantial library plus 
a magazine that is essentia Ireadirtg 
for both serious CPC users and luna- 
tics. Now being run undernew man- 
agement, you can contact them via 
Clive Bellaby at 12 TrafalgatTerrace, 
Long Eaton, Nottingham NG10 1GP 
or send a subscription (@ £1-50 per 
copy) to Paul Dwerry house, 7 
Rrunswood Green, Ha ward en, 
Deeside, Clwyd CHS 3J A. 

As usual, I'll finish off with a list of 
the libraries w T ho havecontacted me 
and sent in examples of their pro- 
grams and /or acatalogue. If you are a 
Public Domain library or you wish to 
recommendone or even a particular 
program, then I'll be delighted to hear 




Amsirad User May 1992 



fromvou, You can write to me at PD 
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The above librarians will be happy 
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For those of you with a Modern, you 
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APPLICATIONS 



BASIC Is this correct? 

Finally, please could you list all pro- 
grams which are available on 
ROMs. Yes, that's right, I said ROMs/' 

Well, let's take first things first and 
say that stunt 1 thirty along the lines of 
the interface is, indeed, being looked 
at for a future issue and it isn't really 
a ginormous task, So, hang on in there 
and we'll see what we can come up 
with, 

Alterna ti vely, alittledickiebird Id Is 




me that that clever chap Steve Denson 
at SD M icros is on the verge of reissu- 
ing Moonstone s excellent 2 in 1 pack- 
age. 

VVhv not ta ke a look at theSDadver- 
tising page in this issue and ask Steve 
about this very nifty piece of pro- 
gramming which, a tier all, does eve- 
rything our hardware project might 

do and a whole lot more besides. 
Amstrad User May 1992 



[Mow then, moving on to the other 
aspects of computer languages and to 
answer your question in particular, 
you are about half right, but also a 
little confused. 

As for the CMC, the BASIC used 
here is Locomotive's BASIC, version 
LI, used in conjunction with the 
A MS DOS operating system. 

As you know, the CPC will also 
accept the CP/M operating system 
used by the Amstrad PCW, and it is in 
these machines that Mallard BASIC is 
predominantly used, 

As for the majority of PCs well, 
operating under Microsoft's Disc op- 
erating system (MS-DOS), there are 
two different B ASICs in general us- 
age. 

The first, and longer standing of the 
two, is GW BASlCIf you must know, 
l he G W act ua lly stand s for Gee Whi zz, 
so thereThe other, and more recent 
arrival, is Quick BASIC, or Q BASIC, 
which is provided with version V of 



MS-DOS. Both of these versions are 
supplied by Microsoft 

Now, to tie up some loose ends, 
most current 8-bit BASICS are linked 
in some form of subset manner to G W 
BASIC, but that in no way means that 
t hey a re compa ti ble ,Obviously, u sin g 
a file transfer routine like 2 in 1, you 
can get an ASCII file from one compu- 
ter to read on the other, after which 
you may have to spend some time 
debugging the file to make it more 
palatable to the new host. 

Moving on to our next customer in 
the surgery this month, it looks like 
another linguistical problem has 
reared its head, this time i n the form of 
CP/M. It comes from Bill Kelly of 
County Cork in Ireland and goes like 



"Dear Doc, If you could help I would 
be extremely grateful. I have two small 
questions" 
l>Do you know where I could buy 

Continued Overleaf 
Page 45 



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some software for speech synthesis, 
as there is no-one in Ireland? 

2>SeveraI times, you have said type 
I CPM to make the 61 28+ behave like 
a PCW.When I typo I CPM (while in 
AMSDOS), I am answered with Un- 
known Comma nd Is my 6128+ bro- 
ken, am I doing something wrong, or 
am I just thick? 

I look forward to your reply;" 

Well Bill, here it comes. One of the 
more popular Speech Synthesis pro- 
grams I ever saw, was something 
called simply SPEECH!, distributed 
quite some time ago by a company 
called Superior Software, 

As for as I remember, they used to 
be based in Leeds, though the tel- 
ephone number I have for them is 
now no longer In use. Having said 
that, Speech would seem to be the 
kind of thing you are after, as it ena- 
bles the CPC to actually talk back to 

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you, after only a very short amount of 
programming, Very easy to use and 
extremely versatile, your best be I is to 
try some of the mail order companies, 
to see if they have an old copy. 

Alternatively, if you can get along 
to an All Formats Computer Show, 
they may have something there. If any 
of our readers happen to have a copy 
of this program that they don't mind 
parting with, why not get in contact 
with Bill at 14 Old Street, Cobh, County 
Cork, Ireland, and make his day, 
month or year. 

Moving on to the second part of 
your enquiry, I think this should just 
be a matter of getting syntax right In 
your letter, you seem to be inserting a 
colon {:} in front of the CPM com- 
mand. In fact, the correct symbol is 
the I symbol, found above the @ sign 
and to the right of the P. 

If I am wrongs then apologies and, 



having said all that, the only time I 
could get an Unknown Command to 
come up, was when I inserted a space 
between the I symbol a nd the C P M So, 
next time you try, just type in I CPM 
without spaces and see what hap- 
pens. 

Don't forget, you must have your 
CPM utilities disc inserted in the 
drive before typing this, otherwise 
you'll simply be told that the boot 
sector failed to load (ie you have no 
disc in the drive). 

You should have received your CPM 
operating disc when you bought the 
machine, so hunt around for it if you 
haven't got it and, from there on in, 
everything should be plain sailing. 

Well, that's enough of the language 
barriers for the time being The next 
item on the agenda is a somewhat 
boastful missive concerning ROMs 
again^Short and sweet, Pete Dunlop 
of Locking in Avon writra: 

I am the proud owner of an Amstrad 
6128 with Protext and Maxam ROMs 
- and very good they are too! How- 
ever, the Maxam book tells me that 
the Amsoft "Complete firm ware speci- 
fication" is a mustl am inclined to 
agree, as I can write Assembler Code 
to manipulate the registers and the 
contents of RAM, but I can't access the 
screen or discs, 

I understand the firmware guide is 
no longer available - got any useful 
ideas?" 

Good for you Pete, I'm glad you are 
enjoying your ROMs.To get to the 
nitty gritty on this one, the firmware 
g u i d e has become something of a bu g- 
bearhereat ACU over the last year. We 
have, in fact, been trying to gain per- 
mission to reproduce its con Lents on 
these very pages for what seems like 
aeons, 

Due to some disagreement, confu- 
sion, Lord knows what, however, con- 
cerning who actually owns the rights 
to the material, we seem to have come 
up against a brick wall. Nevertheless, 
we shall persevere and, one day, all 
will come to light- 
In the meantime, I know that there 
are copies flying about, around the 
country, so if anyone has a spare copy, 
or one to sell, why not wri te in and let 
me know, so that I can pass on the 
good news to Pete. Alternatively, your 
best bet is to hunt around at the com- 
pu tv. r fa i rs, i ir a t y t >u r loca I secon d ha nd 

Amstrad User /Way 1992 




computer book shop. Yon never know, 
you might just have more luck tli.m I 
havo in tracking down a copy. 

Next please! This one is a particu- 
larly loud pled for h^tfromE.C Thorn 
down in Clotted Cream Country, 
Ho ni ton, Devon. Armed with a host 
of enquiries, here is the crux of the 
matter: 

"Back in December 1991, Doc 
Watson said you can load tape progs 
and transfer them to disc on the 61 28+. 
Please, please can you tell me how this 
can be done on the new plus machine. 

The Other thing that is driving mc 
mad is your Easy draw listing, which 
I cannot get working right. All goes 
well until I press T or K.Then, for 
example, if I am on circle and press K 
to input radius, I get Jump=10 Enter 
the radius=, or Jump=10 text=, then 
nothing will work, so I press ESC to 
start again. 

Also, 1 found that your FEB listing 
had several changes from the January 
one,ie Line 3025, 3060 and 220 to name 
but a few .there are more. Should I put 
in a 1 or a small ]? 





And how do I put in the code you 
use on your type-ins, and why do so 
many of your type-ins not w r ork on 
my Amstrad 61 28+? 

PS. It is not because I have put them 
in wrong, because 1 have checked them 
manv times/' 

Well, quite a bagful there, so let's try 
and take your problems one at a 
time. Firstly, getting back to the old 
61 28+ d isc / ta pe conu n drum, t he origi- 



nal article you mentioned was a gen- 
eral overview on normal transfer pro- 
cedures between existing 6128 
ni a ch i nes. U n f or tu na te I y , a nd as m a ny 
of you are no doubt aware, I here is no 
way of attaching a tape recorder to 
you r pi usrna chines because there ai n' t 
no jack plug* 

There is your problem but, to rem- 
edy it, there is one solution and that is 
to send your machine off to WAVE for 
conversion It costs 30 quid, I know, 
and it means losing your beloved 
Arnold for a few days but, if you have 
garia^ 3 stock of cassette soft- 

I^^^^l ware going to waste, it 
|l has to be worth consid- 
K ehng. 

1 Moving on, the 
ffiSv^S^Bjj Easy draw listing has, 
H^MvflSSKf indei*dr, mt t with more 









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thgjr its fair share of 




printing errors, which certainly has 
not made life easy for readers. I am 
assured, however, that in last month's 
issue, a final and full listing was pro- 
duced to put everyone's minds at 
rest J lopefully^ that should sort out 
I he problems thereof not, don't forget 
I hat the fully documented version of 
the same can be a qui red from the 
Pieces section. 

Concerning the proofreader pro- 
gram, all you need to do is type in the 
proggie and save it to a disc or cas- 
sette, remembering to save two ver- 
sions, one for screen and one for printer 
with the correct omissions/ 
additions Then, when you want to 
proof a program, simple run Proof 
first, then load your proggie and list it 
to see the codes on screen The same 
routine goes for the Print routine and, 
if you missed the last outing of the 
proofcode program, don't worry as it 
will make a not her appearance soon. 

As for your problem with the type- 
ins, all of our proggies are actually 
tested on a Plus machine, so there 
should be no real mason why they do 
not work. Without seeing the programs 
you are having specific problems with 
(you don't mention any), it is difficult 

to see where the problem liesjustmake 
sure you don't type in the proof codes 
themselves {those in the square brack- 
ets), as they are only for use with the 
proofcode program. 

If you want to write back to me 
stating where you are having prob- 
lems, then I shall gladly look into the 
matter and see what I can do. Fair 






Amstrad User May 1992 



Wei 1, 1 th ink that's abou t all we have 
time for this month, save for a little 
something which you may have 
thought 1 omitted back in the first 
question, Well, I didn't. 

Concerning the list of ROM soft- 
ware, 1 shall be digging in my files 
over the next few days to see what 1 
can come up with and, when I think 
the list is fairly exhaustive, I will be 
putting it in print for you all to have a 
gander at, at your leisure! can't say 
fairer than that, can 1? 

Until then, if you have any prob- 
lems with your hardware or software 
or programming, then you know 
where to writeThe surgery doors are 
always open and ITl always try to help 
if I can, See vou next month. 



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I REVIEW I 




Over the last 
few months, 
we have seen 
a couple of right 
royal belters emerg- 
ing from the 
Spectra video 
s table I r m talking about the Sting-Ray 
and the Manta-Ray, of course, which 
are still being mauled to bite in the 
office by our games crazed testers. 

For sheer durability and ergonom- 
ics (I always like Eo get that word in as 
early as possible), these two sticks 
would be hard to beat by anybody's 
standards. 

So, as the old saying goes, 'If you 
can't beat 'em, join 'em', Spectra video 




has come up with three new additions 
to this excellent range, and very wor- 
thy offspring they look too at a first 
glance, Coming under starters orders 
as the Alpha Ray, the Sigma Ray and 
the Gamma. Ray respectively, these 
new sticks sport the same racing col- 
ours as their siblings, but as far as 
appearances go, that's where the simi- 
larity ends, 

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The Spectravideo range is growing big- 
ger. Jim Johnson investigates the latest 
arrivals in the shooting gallery. 



THE ALPHA RAY 

As Spectravideo have 
gone to the trouble of 
using the Greek alpha- 
bet as the starting 
blocks for these 
new sticks, I'll 
take them in the 
same order. 

The Alpha Ray, 
coming in at a remarkable 
£11.99; is the starting block for the 
range. However /unlike most other low 
end models, the Alpha looks and feels 
like a true professional Featuring a 
durable steel shaft on the stick, the 
moulded plastic grip is both comfort- 
able and capable of allowing hours of 
non-stop gaming,, without rubbing 
you up the wrong way. 

With the fire buttons nicely placed 
to the back and front of the top end of 
the grip, there is no difficulty wilh 
having to reach for the buttons in time 



of crisis. Ok, so you 
don't get a choice of 
buttons on the base 
of the model, but in 
most cases, these 
only serve to con- 
fuse in any case. As 
with ail of the three new models, the 
Alpha is designed as a table-top stick, 
with stick being the operative word, 
thanks to some excellent, heavy duty 
suckers which keep you well and truly 
anchored during heavy gaming. 

The d es ign i & si eo k a n d , u sing the six 
durable microswitches, the stick may 
need a tittle playing in, don't they all, 
before you really get to appreciate the 
f kx i bi li ty and manoeu vrea hi 1 i ty of the 
Alpha, 

Featuring rapid fire as standard, f ot 
those games which accept it, the Al- 
pha should form l h u new standard for 



the entry level joystick, being virtu- 
ally unbeatable value for money at the 
pricelt certainly looks more expen- 
sive than it actually is and should 
serve you well as a multi-purpose 
stick. 

Amstrad User May 1392 



REVIEW I 




THE GAMMA 
RAY 

This one, in ac- 
tual fact, is the 
top of the 
range 
stick, 
but I i 
sup- 
pose 
Gamma 
sounds 
slightly more effective 
than Sigma, so it comes in second 
in our alphabetical order, 

just take a quick glance at this little 
model and you can tell straight away 
that this is luxury J know, there have 
been gimmicks like LED displays be- 
fore, but not often for under £25! 

The cost of the Gamma Ray is, in 
fact, a mere £22.99, which makes it 
one of the most economical top end 
sticks around on the market at the 
moment.Quite apart from all that, the 
stick itself is a joy to use- 
Again, the heavy duty suckers make 
life very easy from the desktop, while 
the base of the machine is big enough 
to make I he use of the fire buttons 



down below very comfortable. With 
rapid fire as standard, the stick itself 
carries on the same, simple yet effec- 
tive, design of each of the new offer- 
ings, to give long lasting playing 
power, with fire buttons at your fin- 
gertips. 

As well as rapid fire, there is also a 
speed adjuster on the unit, which en- 
hances even further your game 
variety, However, what must be one 
of the best features of this beast, and it 
is also its big selling point, is the dig- 
Eta! counter stopwatch. 

Ok, so that's not totally n^w either, 
but the layout of the base of the Gamma 
Ray is quite novel, with multi-direc- 
tional LED display included, to give a 
highly polished appearance. 

So what, you may be saying, it's 
only decoration. Well, w hat if it is, the 
clock is certainly an excellent device 
to have on any joystick, especially 
when you have two players racing 
against each other to see who can get 
through a level, or even a game, the 
quickest. 




Obviously, the wide base gives more 
leverage on tight cornering and, all in 
all, the Gamma Ray performs in an 
exemplary fashion on both shoot-' era- 
ups and race games, 

Excellent value for money, the 
Gamma Ray has to be one of the most 
sophisticated looking units on the 
market so, if you want to be the talk- 
ing point of your street, you know 
where to go shopping , 



THE 
SIGMA 
RAY 

Cominglastin 
our alphabetical 
series, the 
Sigma ray is 
ac t ua lly 
designed 
to be the 
middle 
ranged table top, 

featuring all of the good points of the 
Alpha, yet not including the razzma- 
tazz of the Gamma. 

This one comes on to the market at 
a measley £13.99 but, what are you 
actually getting for that extra two quid 
on top of the Alpha? 

To be straight, the main additions 
are the two base located fire 
buttons. Are they actually worth a quid 
a piece? Especially after what I said 
earlier on about base mounted fire 
buttons? Well, the honest answer is 
yes, due to some nifty design on the 
base itself. 

Unlike the more usual flat design, 
the two fire buttons in question are 
actually set at an incline, making it 
exceptionally easy to reach for them 
in a hurry. 

Because of the shape of the unit as a 
whole, it is easy enough to rest your 
spare playing hand on the base, close 
enough to a button without disrupt- 
ing your joystick arm. 

Add that to the slightly wider base, 
for a more secure grounding, and the 
Sigma Ray is worth every bit of the 
extra expenditure. A gain, the stick 
design conforms to the series as a 
whole, making for swift reactions and 
good results on most games, and the 
overall result is a very slick, cheap 
stick all round. 

There you have it, a highly 
commended range of joysticks for all 




tastes in the tabletop market. Add 
these to the existing Manta Ray and 
the Sting Ray, Spectravideo's enor- 
mously successful hand-held range, 
and you can safely say that they've 
got the market well and truly cov- 




AH of the joysticks go out under 
Spectra video^s Logic 3 label and are 
sure to be found in your local compu- 
ter store, if not already, then very, 
very soon + 

One more addition to the Logic 3 
range, the Speedmouse, is at present 
only available for the Amiga 
and the Atari, though 
that may change in the 
near future for those 
of you who prefer 
clicking power for 
other applications. 



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F-l Twnide ..ft 90 

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Fantasy World Duzy £1.99 

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hvdra. badlands, skull and 
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robot monsters 

cass 1.99 disc 13.99 

4 most world sports 

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basketball 

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51 



COMPETITION WINNERS I 





A little stealth for J.M.Vining, 



Here we are, at long 
last, with the win- 
ning entries for the 
epic ACU 

G-LOC compo from 
the 

January 1992 issue. 



We certainly got a whole lot more 
entries than we bargained for, and it 
took the ACU Crew a full week to 
decide on the final winners in the 
future et stakes. 

So, without further ado, here is the 
full list, starting with the lucky winner 
of the Walkman, followed by the five 
xunners-up, who each get a copy of 
this superb flight simulator from US 
Gold. 

Take a bow Daniel Kilpa trick from 
Chelmsford, Essex, who's superb 
DK15 entry takes the first 
prize, Congratulations also to 
J.M Vining of Wootton, Isle of Wight; 
Eamon McAllister of County Deny, 
M Ireland; Christopher McAleese of 
Brain tree, Essex;Geoff Tarff of 
Hornchurch, and S.Johnson of 
Dartmouth Road, London. 

AH of you will get copies of the epic 
G-Loc outing on the formats of your 
choice. 

Sorry you couldn't all be winners, 
but have a good look at the excellent 
entries here, then have a go at this 
month* s compo on Page 12,see ya. 



S. Johnson goes into battle, 




Amstrad User May 1992 



■COMPETITION WINNERS 




Daniel Kilpatrick '$ supvrhDKI 5 







Eamon McAllister's Blue Flash! 





Amstrad User May 1992 




Christopher McAleese's Red Devil! 



Here's a little something that is guar- 
anteed to addict you from the very 
startExceedingly simple, all you have 
to do is control Mr A.Line^ using the 
cursor keys to avoid obstacles, walls 
and eating your own tail 

Whilst handling all this, you must 
also gobble up the flashing red-pink 
power capsules. This is one outing you 
won't crack in a day and, if it all gets 
too much for you,, pressing ESC will 



By total Gherl 

■ 

get you outTry it, you'll like it. 



CHARACTERS 

Two listings for you this month, giv- 
ing excellent value for your typing 
powerThis one is a brilliant, profes- 
sional text printing routine that's seen 
on top quality commercial 
software. Now you can give your 
MODE 0 games that extra something 



special, with room for double the char- 
acters across the screen in multi-col- 
ours. 

A superb routine this one and, as a 
bonus, Robin is prepared to supply 
the M/C source code to anybody who 
drops him an SAE at his usual helpline 
address of Pipeline Software, 9 
Biynglas Terrace, Fyle, Mid Glamor- 
gan, S. Wales- CF33 6 AG .Nice work 
Robin. 



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750 DATA F2DDEBOD0GB9DD6600DD23DD6E00DD23OD? ABOEB [ !0j 
7 G 0 DAT A DH DD7E00DD2 3 F E FF 2 0 0 4 D 1 O 3 0 9 B 9 FK I V 200 3 D 1 i 8 [ 6 A \ 
770 DATA DDODA5BHFD21 706 5060805 7EE5 2 1 1 7G6770E02AF [3A] 
780 DATA 120 G 0 4 OB 1 6 3 0 0 5 1 A FDD 6 GO I 2FD2 3 1 0 F3 1 3 OD 2 0 EB [42 | 
7 90 DA T A El 1 B 1 BO 1 00 0 8 EBO 9 3 00 1 0 1 5 0000 9 EB2 30 \ ] OOFD 1 [ D 1 J 
800 DATA 1 3 I 3 1 8 A 08 00 4 200 1 8 004 200 1 08 4 002 I 0O84 00 2 1 0 [BB] 
810 DATA 8004 2 001800 4 2 00 108 4 0021008 4 002 108004 2001 [ K7 ] 
820 DATA 8004 2 00 1084 002 10081002108004 2 0018004 200 1 [ E9 ] 
830 DATA 0840021008400210 E5D505ED5B38 6 6 ED 4 B 3 A G G 2 F [ 1 3 ] 
840 DATA 02ODFO6 52K01ODFO6 5 2E03CDF06 52F0 IODF0652K [ A B ] 
850 DATA O1ODF0652E020DFO652E01ODFO652E05ODFOG51 1 [F9] 
860 DATA 894 EO I F 8 6 4 ODO 8 6 60 1 D 1 R1 09AFCB1 30 R J 20B I 1 OB [2 E ] 
870 DATA I02D2OF42A3866192238G62A3AG609223AG609 [Alj 
880 DAT \ FND [ J 2 1 



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3 ' (Of Robin 'Pipeline Software' Gilbert, Jniiua ry 1 992 [ 7 3 ) 

4 * Tel 0656 740741 for SUPERB Home brow SOFTWARE and TOP I'm [741 
grammi ng TIPS ! [7*1 1 

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9 ' [79] 

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II ' Linage: CALL scr ipt , col umn% , row% , @a$ [ F3 ] 

12 ' [F5] 

13 ' Where.. script = Address of routine {40000 decimal) fF7 

1 4 1 col urn n% = 0 . . 19 [ F9] 

15 4 row* =0 . , 24 [FBI 

16 1 al s "Urn, ..or,,," [FI)J 

17 ' [ FF 3 

18 * Tnk I - The white bits and.. Ink 2 - The other bits. |0I 

1 9 1 [03] 

20 1 If you'd like to know how the machine code routine wm<k [72] 
or how to [ 7 2 J 

21 ' change the enlour spread on the characters, then get in [ F4 | 
touch and [ F4 1 

2 2 ' I'll s ha r e my s e c r e t s ! [ DG ] 

23 ' |F8] 

24 ' [FA] 

1 00 INK 0 . 0 : TNt< 1 , 2 6 : 1 NK 2 , 1 6 : PAPER 0 j CLS ; MODE 0 ; MEMORY 3 '.) !) 9 [ C\ ] 
9: NESTOR!- -ript =40000:a = scrip1 ; FOR f=l TO 7 i EEAD a$:F0I; - ] \('\ 

TO I, FN ( n $ ] STEP 2 : POKE a , VAL (" ft " I M 1 DS ( a$ . g . 2 ) } ; a = a i t : N EXT a [ 04 | 

f "Poke the Cotfe (Need this line) [04] 
110 c r . 1 ui,.n%-0 : row%=9 :n$-*New ASCII Character So 1 . , . " : C A 1 ,1. so \ FA \ 
r i p t , c o J u in n% . row % . «'n $ ; <: o 1 umn% = 0 : r ow%=row% + 2 : FOR f - 32 TO 127: [ F4 j 
a$s£HR$ in : CALL sort pt , col umn% , row% , i» a $ : onlunm%=oo 1 umn* t I : NE I F I 
XT Demo f E4 j 

120 ro] ntnn%~0 : row% = rnw%i I 0 : a$= " You now have space to fit 40 [27 
eh a r a c t e r S a c r o s s t h e s c r e en. like t. h i s ! " : C ALL so r i pt , oo I nmn \ '<: 7 ] 
% , row% , &a$ : PR I NT "Normal ASCII Set* 1 : PRINT : FOR f = 32 TO I27PRT j 27 ] 
NT CHR$ If) ; ; NEXT : LOCATE 1,18 'How did this line get here!.' [27 ) 
130 DATA FK03O0DDGG041)D6E02CDl ABCEBDD6E00DD660J46 \7i)\ 
140 DATA 2 37E2 3666FE5DDElCT)06B9D5C5DD7EOOPP2 3CDAf) [04] 
150 DATA BBFD21AF9C06080r>AFL2aB76C4A89CFD23CBGC)C4 |88] 
160 DATA Art90FD2:n 3AFJ 2CB56C4A89CFI)231T>23 1BC50100 [ill] 
170 DATA O8FB093004O15noO09FBCl23OI 10000101 131310 [OH] 
J at) DATA BAC309B9FT)4f>001 AB01209 [7B] 

190 DATA 8O4O8O4O8O4080O4a040O8O480O4ORO4f}O0408O4O8O4OBO4Oaa [79 
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fell, last time I did a review of 
CRR; this month Fm be- 
ginning what I 
hope to be a series of 
reviews of commercial 
electronic mail and in- 
formation services. I 
say 'hope to be' because 
all this relies on the com- 
pany concerned giving me 
information on how to log 
on to their system, and try 
it out* You would of 
thought it would be in their 
interests to do this, but far 
be it from me to claim to 
understand the minds of the 
rich and powerful... 

If I was asked to name one thing that 
1 thought made Compuserve stand 
out in the ranks from the armies of 
British companies, I would name their 
customer support; Every enquiry I 
made was answered promptly, sensi- 
bly, and helpfully, and it's a free 0800 




probably look daunt- 
ing. But this is 
deceptive - in- 
deed, the manual is 
not really necessary, ex- 
cept for reference* Most 



f T f 



menus leave you with a 
prompt. At this prompt you can 
type any standard command to 
the system. For example, 'GO 
WEATHER' will take you straight to 
the weather menu, and 'FIND CPM' 
will give you a list of all features to do 
with CP/M - a nice touch is that the 
list is also a menu, so you can quickly 
select which of them you want to 'GO' 
to, Most, if not all menus have online 
help, usually by typing (surprise) 
'HELP. This will list what the feature 
you're at is for, and how to use it, 

A large area of Compuserve is set 
aside in what are called 
'Forums' .These are sections of the 
system which comprise both mail and 
files on a particular subject, quite like 



GETTING IN TOUCH 



number. In this fashion, they sent me 
the standard kit to try out. This con- 
sists of a 320 page manual, 3 short 
reference booklets, 3 disks, $25 free 
online time, (Yes dollars!), and a sturdy 
ringbinder. 

About half of the manual is devoted 
to the software on the disks - the 
'Compuserve Information Manager'. 
This is a piece of software that allows 
you, through a system of menus and 
dia logs, to easily find your way around 
Compuserve, whilst online. But there's 
a catch J The software is only for PC or 
Mac machines,, so unless you're con- 
templating an imminent upgrade, this 
won't be of much use to you - 1 won't 
say much more about that; The other 
half of the manual describes in detail 
how to use the features on 
Computer ve. And believe me, there 
are loads of them - for example, the 
obvious national and international 
electronic mail; a substantial encyclo- 
pedia; the latest news; weather 
throughout the world and pictures 
from satellites; sport; information on 
the stock markets; forums and online 
games, 

To log on to Compuserve is quite 
straight forward. You can phone up 
Compuserve's own network, at a Lon- 



Struan Bartlett gives the low down on the 
Compuserve set-up 

don number, Alternatively, there may 
be a local PSS Dialplus node that you 
can phone. There are about 85 of these 
dotted around the UK, and each al- 
lows a connection to be made to sev- 
eral different information systems 
(such as GreenNet or Compuserve), 
After logging on, which simply in- 
volves entering your User ID number , 
and a password, you are presented 
with the maim menu. 

On your first time online, finding 
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joining together a mail and file area of 
the same subject together on a typical 
bulletin board- There are 250 of these, 
many on computers, or computer re- 
lated subjects, and many on subjects 
as diverse as rock music, humour, 
handicapped computer users, and sci- 
ence fiction. 

So what is there specifically for CPC 
users? Well there is no CPC area as 
such, so there is not much chance of 
being able to get CPC specific pro- 
grams. However, the CP/M Forum 
contains a veritable selection of pro- 
grams, from wordprocessors, and lan- 
guages, to telecommunications. 

How much does Compuserve cost? 
To say that the charges are rather 
expensive, is putting it mildly. 
Compuserve counts all its charges in 
dollars due to it being an international 
service. It charges $12,50 an hour as a 
'connect-time charge', regardless of 
time of day or location . This is charged 
for most services, apart from a couple, 
which are marked 'FREE', On top of 
that, you have a 'communication sur- 
charge'. This is what the network op- 

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era tor charges for use of the network. 
Both Compuserve's own network and 
Dialplus' s charge $8. 00 /hour at Prime 
(06;00 - 19:00). Compuserve charges 
$0,30 /hour non-prime, whereas 
Dialplus charges $4.50 /hour. All these 
are billed by the minute and are 
charged at the current exchange rate. 
Add to this British Telecom's charges 
(long distance or local to 



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Compuserve's own network, or local 
to a Dialplus node) and you will find 
that if you live outside London, it will 
set you back a cool £10,00 an hour! 
Also, Compuserve charges a 'Mem- 
bership Support Fee' of $2.00 a month 
from your third month onwards. And 
if you have a 9600bps modem, is that 
a bonus? Well it's a mixed bag really, 
because if you use 9600bps, your con- 
nected me charge is $22,50 an hour! 
Some specialist services such as faxing, 
telexing, and reading UK newspapers 
also charge extra for their use 1 per- 
sonally feel that these prices are a little 
bit on the high side. Compuserve have 
800, 000 members, and if each member 
used the system for only 1 hour a 
month, then Compuserve would ha ve 
credits of somewhere in the region of 
£115 million a year! 

Is Compuserve worth it? If your 
interests in comms are simply chat- 
ting with other CPC users, and 
downloading programs, then 
Compuserve is probably not for you. 
However, because so many people 
use Compuserve, it appears to be ideal 
for problem solving of almost any 
kind (if the solutions are worth the 
cost of you being online f) Also, with 
proper use of software (albeit tricky 
on a CPC) you shouldn't be spending 
long periods online - once you've got 
used to the system, you should be able 
to automate logging on, dow T nloading 
and uploading mail, enquiring into 
the encyclopedia (which is very nice}, 
etc, all in under 10 minutes (about 
£1 .60 all in all). If you've got a business 

Ammtrad Usar May 1992 



in which up to the minute share prices, 
news or weather plays a major part, 
Compuserve might be for you, The 
online games? I haven't tried them all, 
but I'd forget it unless youVe just won 
the pools - at a tenner an hour they're 
at least two times as expensive as Ten 
Pin Bowling, three times as expensive 
as playing snooker, and tens of times 
more expensive than simply buying a 
good game for your CPC! Compuserve 
canbecontactedon0800289378 (09.00 
- 21.00). 

Now to something technical! There 
is a Janet-Fidonet gateway in action. 
u Wha t on earth is a Janet-Fidonet ga te- 
way?". Well, thy aforementioned 
thingy, is to the Janet and Fidonet 
email networks, as Tottenham Court 

Road is to the Central and Northern 
London -Under ground lines. (Eh?) 
That is, you can send a message from 
a bulletin board on Fidonet, to some- 



one on the Janet network, and vice 
versa. This works by you sending 
your message to the gateway (in this 
case Aspects BBS) by cither Fidonet or 
Janet, and it posts it out on the other 
network to whomever your message 
is addressed to. This might be useful 
if you know someone at University 
who has a Janet email number, or 



alternatively, if you're at University, 
and want to communicate with some- 
one who isn't. If you have a modem, 
it's much easier to gain access to 
Fidonet than Janet - you just look 
around for your nearest bulletin board 
that supports Fidonet (alias Matrix 
mail or Netmail). As I mentioned in 
January's column, every Fidonet BBS 
has its own address. (Mine is 2:259/ 
2). To send from Fidonet to Janet you 
address your message to "UUCP" at 
2:250/ 107 (Aspects' Netmail address), 
and put the Janet address of whom- 
ever you're sending it to, in the sub- 
ject, eg, 
To: Uucp 
At: 250/107 

Subject: ugrad@uk. acred brick 

To send the opposite way, address 
your message to "fido.nowster 
@U U C P spu d d y " and put the Fidone t 
address in the subject field in square 
brackets, for instance; 
To: fido,HOwster@uucp,spuddy 
Subject: iSlruan Bartlett@2:259/21 

The 0 brackets are compulsory. If 
you're having problems, at this, or at 
anything else, you're welcome to mail 
me at the above Fidonet address, in 
the COMMS UK, BBSNews, Amstrad, 
or CP/M mail areas as appropriate, or 
at Comms, c/o Amstrad Computer 
User, Sunnyside Cottage, Carluddon, 
St, Austell, Cornwall, PL26 STY. 



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UTILITY COLLECTION 



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c-e ":d:00T0 9 ELSE IV.FCJT*7, "Hours " Lin lNPUTttT^ "h fcimTea " ia> t = k*-n/6ej{3DTO 9 t; ]fl] 

7 3F ok] THEK 6 ELSE d = d¥ 1 . 6093=: f = f *4. &46 1 : oh 1 :10CATE JQ , 7 = TPt WT-LITPIS " : LOCATI 
16 , 14 ^ FIT NT ■ KH 1 : LOCATE lS fc 2:l : FBI NT "HO UBS" = LOCATE 5*3, 9 ! FK I NT 'L/KH r - LOCATE 59, 

IE: P1IHT"KH/H 9 s FF ] NT It 1 4 J *STE I KO» ( 32. , 9 l SF £ l G s 1 C-D73 9 : DATA F U FB , FB, FE fc 2« , E5, Z«,FC 
, F-i , 79 , FB , EI- C2$: 

B 1 F Gtt? THEN 9 ELS E d a 4 / I . S893 : f ■= f /4 . S<B 1 : o-=2 : LOCATE 18 , 7 1 PR E NT - GALLONS * : LOCATE 
36 t Hi PR EMT-MILES 1 -LOCATE 59, B i FK EKT n HPG ■ 1 LOCATE 5^ h 16 : PJf ] NT -, KPff h :F"RTHTe j , 1 g.s 
TE1NG*S 1? n 9iSFC< SI : PfrTA 73 , F9, FA , FE, F2 fc F7 , 2S, FC t F4, F6 h ?A n FE h F4, F8, Ffl-, FE, F&, F6, 2C 
t FC , F4. FS, FB C 14.3 

g ci.Stt 1 ? ;c =d/f = 3 = d/t i n~2^ a = RO«lNn: f , m C05UB I i& 1 1*^3 t 4= J NT idi - GG3 U B U=4 1 a=iSOUHEr 
t.ajrQOSV* l*Sif=5:a=E0UNIXt,2l 1&: M=e 1 a-MUN'&( a , 3 ■ ! GEJEUB 30:GOT^ SiDATft FZ 

, F-s , Fg,PA,F5. fc 28,e&, FF , 2&, 2» ( 20, 2B, 2*, 7 P 3^ 5, 2 fc FllEL. B , 17 , S P T , 7 , 35 P 12,, ie n 2 h B[3TA 
NCE h S n IT, S3. 14 T&Ki 

L3 M=S:S*(flJ =CL3^J!F0E p=2 TO LEN< **1 :q=TkSTI ( V*, EC] I-S (at , p b 1 ) E i PS S NT#w ^* 1 q'H 
: N E)iT : FIT17EN : D ftTA T.35, L&, £3, 2. TS HE ■ 6, 17,26, 2J , 46,75,5, I*, 3S, COSSUHPT I OS, ^ . ^7. T 
,3, J-B.7S, 33, 13,32, AyfcFAC7 □ PEEIS L 47 , 57 , 15, 36, 46 , "?5 , £ E b 29 , 3 n , <T , 72, 2*.22 CSS5 



O I 



1 FOS a=&,BF01 TO &BP07: READ v : POKE a f v : NEXT : CALL 8rfiCe>2:INK 0,0: BORDER e&i BEFINT a 
-z:DIH a$(64 s 2Kb$t 64,2) : t*= N DISC KEHO fcJ G- SHORT 1991 " : j*=CH»*C2 
-iO)+CHR*C241) + ,l lfNO" :m*- H |l +C ( 240 ) il +CHS$ ( 24 1 ) + 11 <N>OTE CQ>UIT <R>UM 
,j jPAPES 0-P EN [30] 

2 k»=STl?rNG*Ul t 8) iCLG 1 ; PEKtt 1 , <& i PAPEEtt 1 , 1 : HODE 2 : I NPUT" Insert Disc & Press ENTE 
R ",cSiTAG:HOVE <b , 336 ,0 , 0 : FR I NT SPC ( 20 ) t *SPC ( 2& 1 : MOVE 0 , 14 : PR I NT" 5CAKNING DIREC 
TORY "SPC ( 6 1 ) ! TAGOFF : PLOT Z t 398 , 1 '■ DR AWR 64^,0: PLOT 0,16: DRAWS 640 , 0 : C AT i X- 1 : y=5 : p 

3 c*="";POR f=C TO 1 1 iLOCATE X+f,y:CALL &iBF0 1 : cS=c^+CHR* C PEEK ( S.BE(&0 ) ) : NEXT : FR I NT 
k*SPC<l7):IF c*<' 1 !" THEN X=X+2* = y=5 = IF x<81 THEN 3 ELSE d-p™l:HODE 1 J TAG ELSE y 

= y+i:IF INSTR(C*, " . BAK" > OR INSTE < c$ , Ir D ISCHEKO " J THEN 3 ELSE b$ C p , 1 ) = c$ : p=p+ 1 : GO 
TO 3 tE2] 

4 PLOT 0,0: DRAW 0, 398 i DRAKE 638,0: DRAW S38,1S:DSA« 0,16: HOVE 0,396, 0 : PRINT t*=Tfl 
GOFE! WINDOW 2,39,3, 33: WINDOW* 1, 1,40,2b, 2b;CLS#l : INPUT "Load Notes" ;c*:rF UPPER* (c 
*><>"N" THEN OPEN I N "di SC»e mo, iat WHILE NOT EOF : r-r + 1 : I MPUT*9 , a* ( r , 1 ) , a* ( r , 2 1 : WE 
ND: CLOSE IN IkGi 

5 PLOT 0, 16,1 ' DRAWS 640 , 0 : C LS : FR I NT* 1 , " HATCHING RECORDS " : FRI NT : D I M b(641:q=l:F0 
R f=l TO d^p=q CA2] 

6 IF Wl(,l)=i>(p,l) THEN b*( f ,2)=a$(p,2) i b(f )=1 :q=p:p=r :DATA 205,96,187,50,0,19 
1,201 ES3] 

7 p=p+l = lF p< = r THEN 6 ELSE NEXT ' CLS : PS I NT# 1 . " UPDATE " : FOR f-1 TO d? WHILE b$Cf,2 
) = "": PRINT b* < f , 1 ) j ^ INPUT " Note " , b* C f , 2 ) ; c- 1 : WEND : NEXT : DEF FNr* ( f ) =b* t f , 1 i + " "4 
bf ( f ,2) :t=i«p=l C2S3 

f3 CLS:PRINThl , ja$ : FEN 2;F0R f = t TO t+20?PRINT FNr$ ( f ) ; NEXT : I F C THEN FElNTttl , " SA 
y ING DATA" :OPENOUT"dlSCnemo,dat ": FOR f=l TO d: WRlTEl»9,b*( f , 1) , b»l f ,2) : NEXT: CLOSE 
OUT: PR I NTS 1 , ft* [IF] 

9 LOCATE 13, p-t+ 1 : PRINT CHF* i 255 ) : i WHILE i " " = i *=UPPEK* ( I NKEY$ J : WEND : LOG ftT 

E 13, p-t+l:FRINT l^INSTEf j$, i$) : ON i + I GOTO 9,10,10:IF i=3 THEN RUN b* ( p , 1 ) E 

LSE IF i=4 THEN LOCATE 14, p-t+ 1 : FEINT SPC < 22 1 k*k$ ♦ « I NPUT ""* , b* f p, 2 U c= 1 t GOTO 8 EL 
SE PEN 1 ; END C93] 

10 IF i = l THEN p=p-l:IF p< 1 THEN p=liGOTO 9 ELSE IF p<t THEN t=t-- 1 : LOCATE 1 , 1 : PR 
I NT CHR* (11) FNrt ( t J : GOTO 9 ELSE 9 ELSE p=p+ 1 : I F ? >d THEN p=d:GOTO 9 ELSE IF pU + 
20 THEN t=t + 1 i LOCATE 1 , 2 1 s FS I NT J PRINT FNr* C p ) : GOTO 9 ELSE 9 [Fl] 



Page SO 



Amstrad User May 1992 





A game for two players. The aim is 
to destroy the other player's rocket 
but colliding with the edge of the 
.screen is fatal. 

Controls: 

Player 1 - X to Rotate rocket 
S to Fire 

Player 2 - M to Rotate rocket 
K to Fire 



1 1 0 LINERS 



ROC KET 



RO!.KET 

i 

V SYI-ipOL 2*50, 24^a T 6O p fc0 T 6O p 60 r 1^6 r 2l9s RYMBDL 251 r 12B, 1^2 , 12*^ 2^5, 255 fc 126,. 192 w 1 2 
8 1 SYMBOL 2%2 w 2l* r \2& P 60, 60 t &O p 60 r 60, 24; SYMBOL 253, t F 

3, 126,255. 2S5 r 12E, li3*C 1 n-CHfi*i"26l) I-BJN 3?=CHR4 I 253> : fl* ^ 2 1 =CHR* f ^RC* V - R* r-CMR* 
r 25".""^ 

2 INK f?,OiBPRDEP- Ot INK n,26;I(^f I, IBs INK 2, 1 1 ; X 1 J =1 0; Y f H = *2; X C2> =-30? V I .3> = t ?s F* 
= ". " E A'.< { 1 >-lB A* (3">«-J f A3i ^£5^0: AX(4l=t>: AY< I >»0:: A Y<3> = 

Ot AY i 2J--1 s AYt4>-l4 EH<I >=3: 5T C2>=*4: CLS: LOCATE 12 T 12sFEN 3? PPTNT-'PRFSS KEY TP FLA 
Y" 

Hi PLOT 0 r 0,3: DRAW 639 T 0sDRAW 639 p 399: HP AW 0, 399? DRAW Ot'tifftM P«l TO 2iFEN F" E LOC A 
TE J(tP*pV<pi : PRINT 54 r ST c]P) i : NEXT; CALL frBBlflU nCATE 
12, 12: PRINT" 

4 14= YNKFYfr-s IF THEN B ELSE IF II- "'X" THEN l =J:«HTn 7 FLSE IF T*= ,, M iB THEN i 

■.^-:nnTn 7 ELSE IF I#-^S" THEN L=l:ri=^: A-X<L)tB=¥rL3 ; 

PFN 3eiS0TD 3 ELSE IT 1*="K 4 ' THEM L=Z: M=l : PEN 3: A=X f L? b BfcVCl > t ROTO 5 0.£E 4 

q rnP D>1 TO lOiIF A=X<F1> AND B=Y < li ) THEN 9 ELSE SOUND 1 , r[-*SQ0l , ( p 4 P 5, O, H LOC* 

TE A+AXf5TiL>i pS+AYCfiTCLDf PfilWT F*; A-A+AX t, ST<L> ? : B= 

B4-AYrST<i.J ?i IF ft>2 AND A<3D AND B>2 AND S<24 THEN I Hi"" ATP A, 9: PRINT" ^ iMEHiGOTD 
0 ELSE LOCATE A p B: PRINT" ■' s GOTO 8 

F_ I nCATF X tM^jYtfl?: I NK 3 T £ f 24:5PEED INK 10,10: PEN 3: PPT NT CUP* f 22S> i LOCATE I 7, 12 

■PP-MT r,AMir HVER' 1 i LQt-ATE U,i3sP£N M b PR I MT " PL A YEP" Ml 11 

IS HEAD" 2 CALL &BB LB s- LOCATE ] 4 p 20: PRINT* ANOTHER <3G {Y/N>"-onTn 1G 

7 ST CL "i =ST ( L > + 1 s IF ST i.L > =5 THEN STCL3*! 

a raiv p=i to ^locatf. x* p^ t vcpi :prjnt" n = x mmjctpi+Ax i bt^pw : v<p>=Ycpi+AY(ET<:pn 

: LOCATE XfP^-pY^P"? e FEN Pi PRINT "S* e" S T < P > 3 shiEJTTi F"Q& H= ] 

TO ^: IF K^Mial OR OR Y<M>-^I OR: YtWJ^^B THEN SOUND J, p 4000. 40 T 5^ t F 5 ? 5s SOT 

0 6 FLSF MFXTHdiOTP 4 

^ FOP P.=FiO Tfl i^OtSOUNI} 1. , 1 p 12* NEK Ti SOUND 1 w 3000 P 5t' p 5 P 5p. 1 p 9: 60TD f. 

10 &1=[NKEY*e IF UPPER* rXt v» l^EN ^UN ELBE ?F X*=:V"- THtTN CLGnEKD ELSE lO 



NOUGHTS AND 
CROSSES 



Nfin^H-fK AND CPOSSFFj 

1 LOCATE 15 a 14;PFJN 3: IF WlN^l THFW RR I NT " PL A YER 1 WON ! " : P1=P! +1 : CALL EPAtJE 
hiwiii^ETP-' eGGTO 1 EL3JF IF WThF=2 ThEN PP!NT"Pt. AYF P 

? WON ? W :P2=P2+] : CALL fetrBl H:E^ASE bj n-*0s TR*2e QTSTO I ELSE CI. 9fl Pf ri* = "D" i F~* < 25*- 
S ,r i L-] :G0<UB IO:D[P1 D^",^Hir TRf-^ RQTD 4 

2 PEM ?; LOCATE 6, PR I NT "PL AVER- 1 - "PI" PLAYER 2-"P?:FEN 1: LOCATE 2 P 12: INF 
UT "SO NOH: "p!( s YiiF H>0 AND »<4 AND y h ANn y<4 THE 

IV IF B<)£ T Y3=0 THEN PKm 2i LOCATE X*2p Y*2c PRINT P* ( n z D i X p Tl -1 s X-Dfi Y*Q; QOSLJP 2tG0T 
C 4 ELSE 2 ELGC 2 

3 FDR S=l TO 2: FOR P=l TU SB IF B<P ± 1 )wfi anEJ Rfp p 2"^S AMD P.CPp^^^S OP Hri r P5»G AN 
O B^2 P F^G AND BtI2 F P>=S THEN HIN=S = GDTD I feLBE NEtfT: 

TF Bfl,l>=S AND Bt.2p^:3 E S AND Br.3 p 33^G CIR flCS.IiaS AND FC2 p 2i^S AND P^l ? ^)-0 THEN 
W!r*'5:a0T0 I fiLSF NEXTk RETURN 

4 TT THEN G=i):F0R P=l TO Si FDR Dm] TO 3i IF B<D,f*>>0 THEM NE T : NSE" X T : PEN 3iG0S 
UP 3; PR |HT l, D0APD FULL'' t CALL feBBI Be ERASE Bi TR=TR*-1 j IF 

TR"S TFIEM TP- 1 e GOTO t ELEF 1 El SF |?F;T! IPN: E\ HE t -\ i C^P^I.rTi i FriP TO t STFP -1 

5 Ff*P P^l TD 2i EF pCP |: fr=S AND a>,P P 2j=S A«D B<P T 3>=0 THetW )C^P; Y=3; BrtTO ^ ELSE NE 
't i -FriR P=l TO 2; IF £<FpZ>=5 M4Q BCPpCSl-S Al*D DCP r l?- 

0 THEhfc 3f^PE Y-ISQOTO "3 ELSE NEXTeFOP Rvrj JO U: IP B^P |P \1=S AND 0-fP t 2>*=R AND D CP,?! 
-i"' THEM H-Pe Y-2iGOTO 9 Fl S\F MFxT 

E FOR F>=] TO 3= TF Fstl.P'^S AND Ei^P^S AND B<[5 P P>=^0 THEN X-SiY-PiOOTO 3 EL SE NE 
KT:F0R P-l TO 3: IF' B<2,F^«S AND Bl^ p R1^G AND B<t r R> = 

0 THEN t^lsYvPiGOTO 9 FLSF NEXT: FOP P=l TO Si ST &a.PJ=S AMD Br3pP)=S AND &f2pR3 

7*4FN X=2;Y=p?G0TD 9 ELSE NEXT 
7 IF m:i p n-s AN(D BO r 2^=S AND Bi2 x 2>=0 OR 8r3 p l^-S AMD Bri r Si^B AND B(2 r 2?*=0 TH 
PN X=t* Y=2b 6t>t0 ELSE IF B<2 p 2)^>h- THEN 9 El Sf! 8 

R IF b ( 2,2K:'S THOI 9 ELBE IF Bi. Ipl ^S AND B(3 P 2^^0 THEN X»-3jY-2 ELBE IF P*n t l>- 

S AND TsKl,a3»0 THEN X=I:V=3 ELSE IF B<3 r 3)=S awjO Tt< 3 

F 0=0 TWFM jf=!;V=l ELSE IF Ba,3J»=S AND Ef3, 1.3-0 THEN X*=3: Y«l 

.' IT !t-=0 AND Y:-ui THFN NEt T< L.OCATE 16 T 14: PEN 3:6=1?GDSUB 4: SOTO LO ELBE LOCATE S* 
Z,y*2: PRINT P*'^2>iBCK,Y ) ^iY^Oi XmOiffc-U LOCATE J F,, 1 ^ : 
GOSUB 4si3DSUB 3:Q0TD Z 

10 IF L=l THEN L=Oi INK O T 0s BORDER Is I**' 1,t\B}im 2, 7; INK ^.^eRLOT 390, 3: DP-AM 
ft O, -9&:l-PDyER 32 r r;';DPAWF O F 96iPL0T 4p3^:DPAhJP ?£ r O= 

-tG^F/tt Gp-G2*DPAH^ -SB, Ot PC TURN ELSE PFN 2= Jf=INT fPND fT] ME) Jt3> ^ 1 : Y= INT rpND [ T I ME>* & 
: + I i E 47 BfK.TKi THEN GOTO '3 El.ftE 10 



Far one player (0) against the com- 
puter (X} + The position is selected 
using co-ordinates (from 1-3 each 
way). A score is kept at the bottom of 
the screen. The winner begins the 
next game, 




Arnstrad Us&r May 1992 



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ale 



AMSTRADCPC61 with cglwr monitor, P^ads 
rjj h^wgfQ and software Worth tivfrr E17DC-. 
tfflfl split. Phcne 0524 £51 60S for free price list 
CHEAP Amglrgd games Far sale on Upe. 
GarnHs likti Rdbooap and Last Nlrtja 2. Fo/atull 
list, send a SAE to Cbac Hau Lam, 7 Maple 
Grew, Mawark, NdTIs NG24 4NB. 
FOR SALE ACU magaames Irqm February 
19afl Id Ntiramber 1991. Only August 1390 
missing. Any reasonable eflersacwple^. Wriia 
to Siephan Muddall, 3 BsxhW Road, 
Eastbourne, East Sussex BN22 7JH. 
CPC612B odour monitor, joy stick and games 
Including Robocop, Turtfes, Castle Maslef, 
Stuntcsar Racer. S^hadaw Dancer arid lots mare. 
Taps lead, art studio, mouse, I*£|h1 pfiase*. 

Ring James on 0303 746253- 
6128 Educational Study Aids tor GCSE and A 
Level EngHish - Hamlei and Max±iEih discs 
£7.50 &ach. Tdsphona OS92 
FOR SALE Proteflwond processor on tape. All 
in its or hginal packing and with anginal manual. 
Pries £1 5, Including P*P, 'rf inten&sTed, write or 
phone, Mr M. Mann-ng, 9 lileyrVr S1nho: 
EarisileW, Wandsworth, London SWIG 4HH. 
081 947 062* , 

FOR SALE Ametrau c^l:464 colour monitor, 
joystick over 1 00 games, ie, Shadow Warriors. 
TuitoOusrunandKick-Oir II. Magazines, £i SO 
one, Phone 021 433 3371 and ask far MaiK 
PAGEMAKER De-usQ DTP1w6l£Sl€64464k. 
Ftevlewed AA73 pg £2*23 - Thaap hui noi 
nesty', vercSd S5%. Amazing valt*e for only C5 
inclusive. -SSAE lor details to CPC Domain. 
119 Laurel Drive, £asl Kilbride, Glasgow G75 

AMSTHAD^inclair comfiulBf Chips. RAMS-, 
ROMs, ULAs Sic. Also V30 CPUs. AH brand 
new. Ljost kitenest in hobby. Phgne lor full hsi 
from eraham Bourne on 0793 824891. 
AMX ART mouse, mouse ma! . mutifoce II . 1-3 
games on disc including Baiman, Bloadwych, 
Siarglider. 16 games on tape. Over 30 mags. 
Worth £300+, will sell £i 50- Phone 0745 

saaoik 

ACU All Issues Irom Jan to Decambor 
1990. Offers? New and unused JV3 £5. MP£ 
£20. MP3 £2Splus Pfi P, Telephone Storrington 
(0903) 74*744. 

CPC&12A wilh colour monitor, Joystick, 
LI V OOC printer, ga ntas anrj MMcrd processing! 
software. Excelianl working condition. £300. 
Telepnona 0276 71124 
SIREN 3.S" disc dnrvo 1or CFC612B, plus 
Ramdos and 3.5" UftUrrjes disc. CosS £130, will 
sell for £7D plus postage. TeleptlOtfa 0294 
79229. (Also various seiiware. s^jparraltv 
TasSign, Mini-Office 2. MFU.) 

Wants/Swaps 

HAS ANYONE got Stop FreSS and AMX mouse 
ort disc io s*ll for £20 . Rembo nam bo* K KDS S- 
bi1 printer pet and a de-cabladrvei;vy'1t;tier lor 
£10oach. Phone- Darr&n on O302SS473O after 
6pm. ' 

DO ES ANYONE have a copy or GAC to SSflor 
swap. Musi be on tape. Oonlacl Neil Padgett, 
46 Oak Prrve, Northway, Tewkesbury, GloS 
GL2D SOW. 

WANTED Fools Maslar prog with manual for 
CPC4&4. Contact A Shelter-, G Kirksfead 
Gardens, Notijnfifijam NG7 5EJ, (0602 
WANTED Cow monitnrfor G PCE 1 2a. Phone 
Gerald Leicester 0533 873492. 
WILL SWAP either Golden Axe, Venqtetta or 
DickTnaceyfgrerttiBf Shadow Da ncsf, Shadow 
Warriors or Dragon Nkija. Send with SSAE io 
D. Bern/, 2 Linden Avenue, W^llingicin, Tollofd h 
Shropshire TF1 1QR. 

EXCHANGE q*mm and utilities. Would like 
Gotf and Right simulators. Write 1or more ifirio 
to Mr S. Jackson, 1 56 "West Street, Dynstabie. 
Beds LUG 1NK. 

Services 

DIZZY SOLUTIONS iQf DiEiys 1 , 2, 3 and 4, 

Pane BP 



tnduding maps. £1 each or £3.50 1oj all lour 
Bend an SAE to lar- : Rovlll, 43 FaddOCkClOSO. 
Calvenon, htotts N&ii SOJ. 
CHEAP ADS, penpeSs, swaps, for sales, 
lanzir*s etc send two second cfiass slamps tor 
derails to D. L aQlesby, 59 Springfield Street, 
New Ba&lord, Hortingham NG7 TOU. 
HELP GIVEN on Dizzy's 1 -4, fast Food, Kwik 
Snax and Panic. 50p each. Wnte to M . Pacione. 
29 Eliiabelli Avenue, Milton of Campsie, 
Glasgow G6S SHT for full Mst or send money H 
help wonted. 

I WILL CREATE a quality loading screen for 
anry game you have witren. Tape only. Send 
75p r SAE, Game on tape and blank tapo to Joe 
Wallers, B Cnaler Road, Oakham, Letts LEi 5 

PROGRAM lo Hsl S404 mulf iface pokes. Choice 
ol outpul lo screen cr printer. Sand blank disc, 
£1 and 3 SAE lo Stephen Muddell, 3 Bevhill 
Road- Easltjourne , Sussex BH22 7JH. 
HELP OFFERE D on ail aspects «f BA&IC arni 
asaemtHy language programming . Don'l lorflel 
to s^nrf an SSAE, Sean McWanus, 2£& 
Chertsey Rise, Stevenage. Herts SG2 9JG. 

CONVERT your 464 to 6123. Keep 464 

equipment and bw 612-9 programs Both will 



work. Microchip conversion carried out. All you 
need is disc drive, Example Stop Press DTP on 
46J . Contact R, J-. Arrrison, 56 Ontffcerv Lane, 
Burton, Stake on Trent ST34BH. -0782 31 354S. 
I HAVE STARTED A BUSINESS lor people 
who require Caiicr made programs lor all C PCs. 
Also, does anyone have a Firmware Guide lor 
Ihe 4&4 to lend? Contact Mr Manning, 9 
Stearlorin Street, Wandsworth, London 3W18 
4MH 

WOW SOFTWARE is a Company -selling new 
and re-re*eased adventure games tbrihe C PC 
Send &A£ tar rfie laJesI list to 78 Radipole 
Lane, Weymoulh, Dorset DT4 
AMSTRAD COMPUTER PARTS available lw 
Ihe entire range- Plue many oompulor 
aocessones availaOIO. JuS' Cill mc c wrrte 10 
J Hayward, ^3 Eny Hoad, Carditf CF5 2JF. 
0222 5543€f9. 

Fflti lor CPC range A helpline to solve you^ 
CPC problems. Software, hardware and games 
covered. Writeendosino, SAE to Chns Williams, 
6 Franfc Street, Great Hcrton. Sraeiord BD7 
3BT. 

KEYPRESS cheals lor over 50 games, 50p 
each or £3 1ha lot. A so u' lormaJI Cheat book 
C3 Send S^At 1o ^hys Evans, m Vardre 
Ftoad, Clydach, Swansea, Wales SAe 5LU. 
GAMES DISC from atrategy "c shDot-am-ups. 
Great graphics and pjayabllfy in My Code. tZ.BC 
if you supply dieo or £4.95- Kevin Heywood, 18 
Sinclair Avenue. Banbury, OxOrt OX16 7DW. 



Fcinziri6S 

NEW FANZINE rorthe Amslrad and C-64 tape. 
We wll review PD sc please send any PD tir.j 
other sottware tor review to R, -SteoVnan, e 
Wultnjna Gardens, Finchtield , WOlvartiampton 
WV3 9HZ, 

CROCO* Trie European feozine for the 
Amslrad 61 2S Is. Here! 720k of hints, lips, 
reviews, pokes and interviews Please send a 
%r disc, £1 and /SSAE to Song Vow Ly, fl 



Wooderson Close, Soulh Morwood, London 
SE25 6JP. 

LFACC PRIWTJDUT.d^eats.BBgmnBfSpeDeE, 

competitions, PD P M/O/Basic, adverts, picture 
p.^es qoFr-7, p. reviews etc Only 7Qp. AoW ^ap 
if overseas. A'e>: Banks-, TickaywOod, 
Crapstone, Vel^arlon, Devon PL2D 7PW Tel: 

ADVENTURERS- HERALD Oul new. with 
news, reviews and just aooui anything to do 
with adveniure. Or% sop from PO Box 522, 
TweedaJe, Tellord, Shropshire. Any budding 
reviewers please gel in touch. 
CPC FANZINE called Play Males. Full of 
reviews, tips, pokes and Bonso news. Wilh 
P£P just £1. Car^ Surrey, 37 Fairfield Way, 
Bamet, Herts ENS 2 BO 
AOK Fanzine, mcludes Fealures, reviews, type- 
Ins, small projectsano: more Send 6Up i includes 
P*P) ro Paul Escott. 31 Coieorooke Road, 
Shirley, Solihull , Wfr&l Midlands S90 2L&. 
CPC DOMAIN The only monthly magazine for 
serious CPC users. Only £1.25 for over 40rrl 
packed pages. Six month subscripiionfor £ 7.50. 
CPC-Dcmain. 119 Laurel Drive, Easl Kilbride, 
Glasgow G?B SJG. 



Penpals 

DOES ANYBODY who lives rn the Kirkcaldy, 
File areawarrtto come along to my house in the 
Gletie Par*vBauisu&ney Roao" area to share 
programs and games? ContacS fi&Ss Anderson, 
1S Maria Slreet, Kirkcaldy. Fife Bcdlanc. 
CPC PENPALS wanted to swap games on 
cassette only for the 464. Alao demo tapes, so 
send your lists lo Matthew Glover, 12 Garrick 
Street. AJvaaton. Derby DE2 APT. 
PENPALS WANTED cc swap games and 
demos on disc Any age, any cooniry. He^p 
given on new and old games. Write to Ricnaid 
Wlldey, 41 Encore eaniens, London SW14 

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onwards, the cost of an advert will be a flat rate of just £4.50, which stiU makes it ihe cheapest 
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Amstrad User April 1992 



Page 63 



FEEDBACK 



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Our first letter this month 
comes from Stan Gardner of 
Stratford, London, who feels 
he must reply to previous letters con- 
cerning the issue of Cover Tapes. Well, 
Mr Gardner, write away: 

"I feel I must ask for an opportunity 
to reply to your Manchester reader's 
criticism of my letter concerning cover 
tapes /disc (Dec 91 issue), 

He fails completely to understand 
the point I was attempting to make. 
My statement that all readers should 
be considered, not just 464 users, 
causes him annoyance. Yet his main 
argument falls at the first hurdle. He 
urges 6128+ owners to have their 
machines altered. He conveniently 
omits to mention that by doing so, the 
initial guarantee and any extended 
guarantees paid for become invalid. 

I lis statement that I imply interest 
in the serious applica tions is pure con- 
jecture and cannot be substantiated. 
In fact, I have more games than seri- 
ous programs. I get equal pleasure 
from both types and your games re- 
views are read regularly, Any game 
that I find suitable for my taste, I buy. 
I CHOOSE to buy. A cover disc/ tape 
takes away that choice and obliges me 
to buy through any increased maga- 
zine charge. 

I find myself in a position other 
6128+ owners may not have the ben- 
efit of. I upgraded from a 464 to a 
6 1 28 +■ j ust over a year ago > The old 464 
was given to a friend who, on my 
advice, bought a disc drive. Conse- 
quently, I am able to transfer tape to 
disc if I wish. Unfortunately, I have 
yet to find a game on a cover tape 
worth transferring to disc. My de- 
scription of cover tapes/discs as junk 
still applies. 

1 do not wish, as a 6128+ owner, to 
be saddled with an unwanted tape. 
Equally, and I stress this, I would not 
wish 464 owners to have an unwanted 
disc thrust upon them; 1 cannot be 
fairer than that. I read your letters 
pages regularly. I may not always 
agree with the points raised by other 
readers, but they are entitled to their 
views and the right to air them, I 
would not have it any other way. 

Your magazine is good value as it is. 
Leave well alone. If you decide to 
have these cover disc /tapes, one way 
or another you will alienate a section 
of your readers.The letter from a more 

Pag* 64 



reasonable reader in Sheffield, sug- 
gesting alternating monthly tapes and 
discs, may be a compromise you 
would like to consider. You must be 
prepared though, for a slight decline 
in your circulation, a 1 1 ea s t every other 
month, if the Manchester reader car- 
ries out his threat to cancel his 
subscription. Personally^ I will con- 
tinue to buy the magazine every 
month, whatever you decide." 

So, there's an honest opinion for 
you and, of course, it puts the ball well 
and truly in everybody's court. What 
do vou all think about this issue? One 
thing to remember, however, is that 
after taking the cover tape option over 
a year ago, Amstrad Action are pres- 
ently publishing at a mere 60 pages, 
albeit with a cover cassette, at the cost 
of £2.50. Would you rather have a 
cover disc/ tape at the expense of edi- 
torial coverage, or have the choice of 



buying special magazine discs/ tapes 
at your leisure? Simply send in your 
views to the Feedback Page, Amstrad 
Computer User, HHL Publishing, 116- 
120 Cos well Road, London EC1V 
7QD, and we'll see that they get aired. 

Other areas for you to get to grips 
with: What do you think about the 
decline of full-priced CPC games? 
What are your views on the lack of 
software and hardware support by 
the major chain-stores? Are we CPC 
owners getting a raw deal? Tell us 
what you think and, you never know, 
we may even be able to make those 
bad boys in their of ices rethink their 
strategies. 

Remember, if s up to you to let them 
know what you want, so keep writ- 
ing. That's all for this month, though 
in the near future, the Feedback page 
will be expanding to fit more of your 



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Your right to 
reply is what's 
at stake here 
and, for this first 
outing into the 
realms of feed- 
back, guess 
wha t rears its 
ugly head 
again? Yep, the 
old 464-61 28 
divide. Read oru 



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